By Charles Topher LGBTQ, Politicians Behaving Badly, PoliticsJanuary 31, 2015

Gay Rights Can’t Be Considered ‘Human Rights’ Says GOP’s Congressional Human Rights Leader

It seems the GOP is intent on making a mockery of every committee Congress has to offer. Since Republicans took control of both chambers, they’ve gone out of their way to place ignorant a-holes at the head of committees that deal with some of the most important issues our country faces.

As if it weren’t ridiculous enough to have Sen. Ted Cruz, a science denier, at the head of the Committee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, Republicans also thought it would be a good idea to have a hateful bigot at the head of a subcommittee on human rights.

US Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey announced this week that gay rights “can’t be construed as human rights”:

I am a strong believer in traditional marriage and I do not construe homosexual rights as human rights.

It’s probably safe to say that the congressman doesn’t consider homosexuals human beings at all.

Smith’s comments were made while addressing the subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. His idiocy came just after a report that 12 Nigerians were arrested for holding a same-sex wedding.

Smith is taking quite a bit of heat from activist groups all across the country. Co-Chair of the New Jersey Democratic LGBT Caucus Chris Hillmann said:

It’s simple: LGBT rights are human rights. It’s shocking that Smith — or anyone in his position — would make such close-minded comments to the contrary.

For a person in his position to dehumanize such a large segment of our society and to suggest that members of the LGBT community are creating hurdles for U.S. diplomats is appalling on so many levels.

Representative Smith should apologize for trying to pit some people’s human rights against those of others.

Hillmann is absolutely correct. “Human rights” cover the entire spectrum of the rights of - get ready for it Congressman - human beings.

In typical GOP fashion human beings are now considered white heterosexual men who earn more than 175% of the poverty level. Oh, and fetuses, regardless of their race, religion or sexual orientation (which they can choose later.)

The good news for Democrats is that the next two years will be full of this kind of lunacy, making it glaringly apparent to people who don’t fly the Gadsden and/or confederate flag over their trailer homes just what re-electing these buffoons will do to our future.

H/T: The New Civil Rights Movement | Image: Crossmap.com

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Charles is a lifetime lefty liberal from Lowell who has managed to migrate (legally) to the backwoods of Maine. He writes from a 1 acre progressive bubble where Nobama stickers on pickemup truck bumpers are common.

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glantern35

These clowns have convinced themselves that government doesn’t work, so they’re gonna make damn sure it doesn’t. The problem is that government only fails when Republicans are in charge.
- TaxPaying American Voter
  
  Proven for decades. Not opinion. Fact.
  - regressive whitetrash GOP scum
    
    would this also include the republican -led states (see: Wisconsin , Kansas ETC) which are collapsing with the regressive GOP policies ? ( see: smaller govt)
    Hmmmm……………..? how are THOSE GOP states doing? shall we review how the most poverty and worst education is in GOP states???
- Miguelito3557
  
  This has been the major emphasis of Republicans since Reagan’s time. As he was delivering his famous words, “Government isn’t the solution to people’s problems, it is the problem,” he had a copy of Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom in his coat pocket. He prescribed a world that worships capital investors, asserting that governmental regulation of business prevents or defeats the full growth of capitalism and government must be reduced through privatization. The clowns haven’t convinced themselves, but rather the Waltons, the Koch Brothers, etc. have been preaching this for decades, pitting taxpayers against the poor, pitting Christians against liberals in order to regain America’s “moral compass,” conducting class warfare on the middle class while accusing liberals of making class warfare on them, pitting coal workers against those concerned about global warming, assailing science as a form of “political correctness.” or elitism. The fearful and the stupid have been seduced by the wealthy to join in government bashing, the effect of which is to undermine anything in the “common good” or in the “public interest.” Was it much different when Republicans resisted the passage of Medicare in the 60s or Social Security in the 30s? I wasn’t around in the 30s, but my feeling is that we have entered an uncharted course of unadulterated ignorance that far exceeds the idiocy of politics of the 60s.
makikijoe

A good reason for gay folks, and people who care about us and about our rights, to NEVER vote Republican. Hillary Clinton, in her book, “Hard Choices”, spends at least a whole page of the book explaining how just the OPPOSITE is true. She explains how gay rights definitely ARE human rights. And how, during her time as Secretary of State, she had to explain that to many foreign leaders and diplomats from countries that are not respectful of the rights of gay people. Bless her. That’s why it is so important for gay people to support her campaign.
- Miguelito3557
  
  I prefer a president who will respect the civil rights of all citizens, including those in the gay and bisexual community, and we’ll soon have a constitutional ruling by SCOTUS making this form of discrimination unconstitutional. However, Hillary, if elected, would only continue the accumulation of wealth by oligarchs and would be a warmonger, including dragging us into more conflict in the Mideast as Israel’s sponsor. Seen that, done that. Never again.
  - makikijoe
    
    Life presents difficult choices, Miguelito. I’d prefer Bernie Sanders. But I do NOT believe that he can win. He has sometimes called himself a socialist and that is not going to sit well with most voters. And Liz Warren says she isn’t running. I wish Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio would run.
    I will do everything I can to elect the Democratic candidate, be that Hillary or otherwise. It is imperative to keep the presidency in Democratic hands. If you throw away your vote on a 3rd party candidate who WON’T win, that would be really sad.
    - http://www.michaelmarowitzlaw.com Michael Marowitz
      
      Hillary will serve as an instrument of neoliberalsim. I hardly see how she’d be much better than Bush at least as to economic issues. She will do what Obama does-lament income inequality without blaming Republican policies for producing it. She won’t do s-t about global warming. She will stand up for women’s rights but will not give a hoot about Palestinian rights. She is owned by AIPAC. About the only thing i can think of that she would benefit the 99% is her power to appoint Supreme Court justices, but electing Democrats because they label themselves Democrats doesn’t mean much when politics are already controlled by the top 1%. We’re headed for third world status, and Hillary will do nothing to arrest that march.
      - makikijoe
        
        Pessimism only HELPS the conservatives. I don’t expect instantaneous or total agreement with the Dem party. Or the Dem party candidate for president. But not voting, or voting for a 3rd party, is a waste of my precious vote. And that is something I can’t accept. I won’t accept.
Nualaan

Abject hatred for all of the whole of humanity that aren’t a cookie-cutter clone of himself. Selfish, evil man.

LGBT Rights ARE Human Rights, Civil Rights, Equal Rights.

Today’s GOP aren’t anything like Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ike Eisenhower… heck even “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater along with Ike, warned them to never, ever do what is today the whole of the GOP political platform.

This current crop are so much like the ones in charge during the decade of the 1920’s whose similar policies drove the nation and the world into The Great Depression. That decade of GOP insanity took two decades of Democratic leadership to bail the nation (and the world) out of the abyss. Even two-termer Eisenhower knew better than to try those tired mistakes over again. He warned us of the dangers of a military budget taking precedence over building schools and even warned us of ignorant attitudes such as today’s TEA party espouse.
decrepittex

I suppose he bases this on his opinion that gay people aren’t human? News flash asshole, they’re human and they should have the same rights as your sorry ass.
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