Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Brother Recruited Spies to Infiltrate Liberal Groups Including a Top Teachers Union: Report – The New Civil Rights…

Thecommissioncreated by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to reconsider U.S. human rights policy, ostensiblyaccording to the principles of unalienable rights anda particular interpretation ofnatural law,held its most recent public meeting at the U.S. State Department on Friday,wheretheRuth Institutes Jennifer Roback Morse used the Q&A time to read a statement and submit apetitionthat urgesPresident DonaldTrump and Pompeo to Make the Family Great Again. Morse claimed that the family itself has human rights.Morse is essentially asking the commission to endorse the idea that the so-called traditional family has fundamental rights that equal or exceed those of individuals.

When the Commission on Unalienable Rights was created last year, anti-LGBTQ activist Brian Browncalled itan extraordinary opening to push for clear and consistent recognition of the natural family,adding thatit gives us a forum to challenge American foreign policy that has in the past advanced the extreme agenda of the left that has been cloaked in the language of so-called human rights.

The Ruth Institute started as a project of Browns National Organization for Marriage, so its not surprising thatMorseshares his view about the potential for the commission to help them advance their anti-equality agenda. Morses petition signers include an array of U.S. and international anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ activists, including Gary Bauer, Janice Crouse, Robert George, Mike Huckabee, Alveda King, Rick Scarborough, and Sharon Slater. Among the signers from outside the U.S. isLevan Vasadze,the businessman and anti-LGBTQ activistwhohostedthe 2016 World Congress of Families global summit in the capital ofGeorgia,the former Soviet republic.

The petition urges the Commission on Unalienable Rights to work for recognition of the following fundamental rights:

Human rights advocates, LGBTQ-equality activists, and othersare concernedthat the commissiondominated by conservative academicswas created to provide intellectual justification for bringing human rights advocacy in line with right-wing complaints about human rights inflation.And they worry that most commission members aim toput a right-wing interpretation of religious liberty into a top tier of rightsthatwould exclude other rights recognized by the U.S. and the international community since the founding of the United Nations. The commission has been holding monthly public meetings,hearing fromspeakersexpressing a range of views,and taking public questions. Its report is expected sometime this spring.

Pompeo and other Trump administration officials have also spent the past year mobilizing a new pro-family coalition of conservative and authoritarian governments designed to resist any international agreements or action by U.N. agencies that recognize reproductive rights, LGBTQ equality (which is deemed to be anti-family), and comprehensive sex education.

Morseclaimeda few years ago that the goal of radical feminists and sexual revolutionarieswastoexpand the power of the state to take control over family lifeand that they were using divorce and gay marriage to do it.

The Ruth Institutebills itselfas a global non-profit organization equipping Christians to defend the family and build a civilization of love. Itpromotesthose who have walked away from a same sex lifestyle and other survivors of the sexual revolution.

Morsesstatementat the State Department was promoted by One News Now, a news arm of the American Family Association.

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