{"id":14613,"date":"2011-12-13T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14613"},"modified":"2013-10-27T22:43:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:43:02","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-says-homosexuality-trumps-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/us-secretary-of-state-says-homosexuality-trumps-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Says Homosexuality Trumps Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several news sources reported the US government position that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/hillary-clinton-religious-beliefs-are-standing-way-protecting-human-rights-lgbt-people\">gay rights are human rights<\/a>&#8221; and the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.speakupmovement.org\/church\/religious-freedom\/secretary-of-state-says-homosexual-behavior-trumps-religious-freedom\/\">obstacles<\/a>&#8221; in the way of homosexual &#8220;rights&#8221; are based on &#8220;religious beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[US Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton noted that among the challenges facing LGBT people is &#8220;when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the human rights of LGBT citizens&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Secretary Clinton said\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This holds true for inflicting violence on LGBT people, criminalizing their status or behavior, expelling them from their families and communities, or tacitly or explicitly accepting their killing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the exception of &#8220;behavior&#8221; there would likely be little disagreement among many &#8220;religious&#8221; people in the United States about Clinton&#8217;s list.\u00a0 Despite Clinton&#8217;s statements these were &#8220;rights that people always had, [not] new or special rights,&#8221; sexual behavior has not historically been regarded as a human right or liberty.\u00a0 In fact, it has long been &#8220;regulated&#8221; by either legislation or social mores.<\/p>\n<p>The implications of such a new &#8220;right&#8221; may be significant.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously with their statement that &#8220;gay rights are human rights,&#8221; Clinton and President Obama both say they oppose what homosexuals call their &#8220;right&#8221; to marry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/secy-state-clinton-says-religious.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several news sources reported the US government position that &#8220;gay rights are human rights&#8221; and the &#8220;obstacles&#8221; in the way of homosexual &#8220;rights&#8221; are based on &#8220;religious beliefs.&#8221; [US Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton noted that among the challenges facing LGBT people is &#8220;when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[270,19,442,2570,43,10,171],"class_list":["post-14613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-clinton","tag-government","tag-homosexual","tag-human-rights","tag-obama","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}