Tag: Mike Pompeo
Top state department official fired for being too homophobic to work with
One of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s senior aides was just fired after several members of her staff threatened to quit over her “abusive” management style.
Kiron Skinner was informed yesterday while she was on a trip to China that she was being ousted from her position as director of the agency’s Policy Planning Staff.
Politico reports that Skinner was let go because of “her ‘abusive’ management style, including making homophobic remarks and accusing people of having affairs.”
According to Politico:
Sounds like a...
One of the biggest antigay activists says Trump’s human rights commission is their ‘opportunity’
A prominent anti-LGBTQ activist said that Donald Trump’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to roll back LGBTQ equality.
Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a new Commission on Unalienable Rights that will conduct “one of the most profound reexaminations of the unalienable rights in the world” to determine which human rights are worth protecting and which are more… optional.
“Words like ‘rights,'” Pompeo said, can be used for “evil.”
Human rights advocates immediately criticized the...
A government commission headed by an anti-LGBTQ activist will ‘reevaluate’ human rights
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a new commission that he said will decide which human rights are more important to U.S. foreign policy.
The new Commission on Unalienable Rights will answer questions like “What does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right?” and “How do we know or how do we determine whether that claim that this or that is a human right, is it true, and therefore, ought it to be...
The Trump administration will launch a human rights panel that stresses antigay ‘natural law’
The State Department announced that it will be launching a new advisory panel that will stress human rights in the context of “natural law.”
In contemporary politics, “natural law” is associated with conservative Christianity, especially opposition to reproductive and LGBTQ rights. Anti-LGBTQ activists use the phrase constantly to justify opposing basic human rights.
The State Department published a notice to create the Commission on Unalienable Rights. The notice says that the Commission “will provide the Secretary of State advice and recommendations...
