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Mike Pompeo Grilled by Sen. Cory Booker Over Gay Marriage, Gay Sex Is A Preversion Comments

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The pick for the next Secretary of State and who is currently the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director and well known hawkish foreign policy advocate Mike Pompeo, was grilled on Thursday during his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his Secretary of State confirmation hearing over his past [...]

Rex Tillerson Refuses to Say Gay Rights are Human Rights

By JRL Charts|2017-01-13T22:02:08-08:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: gay rights are human rights, intersex rights abroad, LGBT Political News, promotion of LGBT, refuse to say, Rex Tillerson, secretary of state nominee, senate foreign relations committee, special U.S. envoy, U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del)|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for the most important Foreign policy position, secretary of state, on Wednesday refused to say whether “gay rights are human rights.” “American values don’t accommodate violence or discrimination against anyone,” said former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson in response to a question U.S. Sen. [...]