The State Department normally goes to great lengths to ensure U.S. representatives, especially U.S. ambassadors, are well briefed and aware of the cultural sensitivities of the host country. But those concerns have been jettisoned by the Obama administration when it comes to the promotion of homosexuality, as evidenced by an increasing array of individuals and groups that are speaking out about the behavior of the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. James “Wally” Brewster, a former Obama campaign bundler and LGBT activist was appointed by President Obama in 2013. It’s not just religious leaders who are calling for Brewster to be declared persona non grata, but political and educational leaders are as well.
The issue is not Brewster’s personal sexual activity or “orientation.” It is his heavy-handed and quite imperialistic approach of imposing special rights as a policy on an island nation which he’s supposed to be building relations with, not undermining. The country has a population of 10 million with 95 percent being a part of the Catholic Church, whose biblical teachings on human sexuality are quite clear. Brewster is using taxpayer dollars through the U.S. Agency for International Development to build up the gay community and even indirectly help elect homosexuals to office. Those seeking to oust Brewster have launched a petition on the White House website. Unfortunately, this is not surprising from this administration that has routinely neglected issues of national security and the promotion of true human rights like religious freedom and the freedom of conscience,* and instead promoting an elitist policy preference on sexuality that is not shared by most of the world’s people, or even the vast majority of those in the United States. In a further display of arrogance, National Security Advisor Susan Rice took to Twitter—not to address the actual concerns of those from the Dominican Republic, but to call them bigots.
While Christians and other minorities face life threatening persecution and women and children suffer under oppressive regimes, the Obama administration only has a voice for promoting the LGBT agenda.
*See this article on the role of conscience in the international human rights framework and the danger LGBT policy preferences pose to this framework, co-authored by our own Travis Weber, and recently published in the Regent Journal of Global Justice and Public Policy. Also, watch this talk at FRC by John Eastman on American Cultural Imperialism.
