In a statement released by the White House, Obama addressed workplace discrimination for LGBT employees and the rights of transgender individuals, and he also acknowledged the importance of LGBT rights overseas.
“Overseas, I am proud of the steps that the United States has taken to prioritize the protection and promotion of LGBT rights in our diplomacy and global outreach,” the statement read.
IDAHOT comes just weeks ahead of pride season this June and the Supreme Court’s highly-anticipated decision on national marriage equality, and just days ahead of a key vote in Ireland. There, Irish voters will head to the polls on Friday, May 22 to decide if the country’s constitution should be changed to make way for marriage equality. If the country votes in favor of same-sex marriage, it will be the first nation to grant couples marrying rights by referendum.
“This day and every day, the United States stands in solidarity with members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and all those around the world who work to advance the unassailable principle that LGBT rights are human rights,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice said in a statement.
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6 comments:
Good, so tell all the Homos to leave us Christians alone.
We're not the ones stirring the pot.
I have absoutley nothing against homosexuality but this pic that compares Iwo Jima to gay rights disgusts me. This is the type of stuff that turns me against them.
Wow, these are some really sick people.
Fine just stop ramming it down my throat and teaching our children this is the norm' it is not and has not been for thousands of years!
O-slime-ba has a vested interest in the movement. If the supreme court makes sodomy the official law of the land, O can officially come out of the closet.
7:10pm and 7:55am...you are so RIGHT!!
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