FRC Releases New Report Analyzing Biden Administration’s Misplaced LGBT Foreign Policy Priorities
Written by Teddy on June 13, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Family Research Council today released a new report, titled “Exporting LGBT Ideology: The Biden Administration’s Foreign Policy Priority.” The report was authored by Arielle Del Turco, FRC’s Director of the Center for Religious Liberty and Dr. Chris Gacek, JD, FRC’s Senior Fellow for Regulatory Affairs. The authors argue: “Since President Joe Biden took office in 2021, his administration has systematically elevated the importance of LGBT ideology in American foreign policy, utilizing the resources and platform of the U.S. government to promote LGBT policies abroad…The Biden administration’s ideological colonialism sometimes strains our relationships with other countries and diverts U.S. attention from focusing on human rights issues. LGBT-identifying persons are already (rightly) protected by international human rights treaties by virtue of their personhood, not their sexual orientation or gender identity. Pushing LGBT-specific policies around the world is a coercive attempt to change foreign cultures and laws from afar and displaces human rights like religious freedom.”…