The LGBT Agenda: The Return of the ‘Ugly American’

Why is US foreign policy pushing the LGBT agenda on the world?

Jessica Stern, U.S. special envoy for LGBT rights, speaks at the 2022 ILGA World Conference (The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association World Conference) in Long Beach, Calif., on May 2, 2022. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

As order in the world declines, the Biden administration has a full plate. In addition to meeting communist China’s global challenge to the United States, dealing with Russia for invading Ukraine, fuel and food shortages, inflation, and presumably preserving the liberal international economic order, American foreign policy has a new and urgent priority of promoting what traditional cultures and values regard as sexual deviancy in all its various forms.

A Shift in US Priorities

To put it bluntly, President Joe Biden’s presidential memorandum on “Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons Around the World” signals a new shift in America’s priorities.

A bit of perspective is in order.

Since the country’s founding, the basic objectives of American foreign policy have been (and should remain) to pursue, promote, and support American geopolitical, economic, trade, cultural, and other national interests abroad. To most successfully accomplish those aims, we usually try to work with other nations in at least a cordial and coordinated fashion. Not always, but most of the time.

Soft Power Abuse

American “soft power” has been a huge factor in convincing many nations that the liberal world order of more or less free trade, representative government, and human rights is a better template than the authoritarian models of adversaries such as China, Russia, and Iran.

Over the decades, through both hot and cold wars, U.S. soft power has been applied with foreign aid, crisis relief, peace negotiations, and U.S. citizen participation in nongovernmental organizations such as the Peace Corps. Vast numbers of Christian missionaries sent worldwide have also played a role.

Of course, the United States hasn’t always behaved in such a manner. At times, the United States has exercised its vast diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military prowess to impose its policies upon less powerful and often culturally different nations against the will of those nations’ leaders and cultural norms.

Sarah McBride, national press secretary of Human Rights Collation, speaks on the introduction of the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination bill, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 1, 2019. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

The Ugly American, Yesterday and Today

Such behavior spawned the term “the ugly American,” which is defined as “an American in a foreign country whose behavior is offensive to the people of that country.”

To quote the “Interagency Report on the Implementation of the Presidential Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World (2022)“:

“The U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons is an active member in the Department of State’s Equity Council. Convened by the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Office, the Equity Council provides a platform for equity leads to share information, discuss challenges, and reinforce intersections between the various efforts aimed at embedding racial equity and support for underserved communities in U.S. foreign policy development and implementation.”

In short, LGBT issues are now to be treated as racial equity issues in our foreign relations with other nations. Furthermore, U.S. government human rights reports are to “more thoroughly address the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons; and acknowledgment of violence against LGBTQI+ persons within the drafting of the new U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally and the first U.S. National Action Plan to End GBV.”

Why this shift in U.S. priorities?

US a Pawn of WEF?

One reason might be because the Biden administration fully supports the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) plans for the Great Reset, which covers the entire spectrum of transformative changes, from vaccinations, digital currency, and green technologies to massive cultural changes.

Per the WEF, globally enforced inclusive policies aren’t just a question of ethics, but instead of global survival. LGBT inclusion is not only desirable, the WEF informs the world, but should be a priority for business, crucial for stakeholder capitalism, and many other aspects of a global society.

The Biden administration is certainly doing its best to toe the WEF line, including legislating hate speech laws to silence and punish those whose religious beliefs are contrary to the LGBT agenda.

Abolishing Traditional Values Is the Goal

Like it or not, Western civilization, particularly the United States, was founded on Judeo-Christian values. These foundational values have driven the development of the West for the past 2,000 years, playing a critical role in science, culture, and the development of representative government.

That said, why is the Biden administration trying to shove the ungodly, anti-Christian, anti-traditional values down the throats of nations around the world?

The short answer is that the administration has its agenda—or marching orders—and they have nothing to do with defending or promoting American interests and everything to do with adhering to a new world order agenda. A “New World Order” or “Great Reset” can only be established by deconstructing—or obliterating—the old one.

Indonesia Says ‘No’

Today, a new ugly American is at work. The presidential memorandum and its supporting policies to enforce acceptance of LGBT policies is causing other nations, regardless of their cultural antipathy to such an attack, to turn against such cultural bullying and political debauchery.

Indonesia, for example, refused entry to Jessica Stern, the U.S. LGBT rights envoy, because the government there recognized that “[her] intention is to undermine our nation’s cultural and religious values.”

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, is correct in its assessment of the U.S. LGBT policy.

Ugly American, indeed.

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