This is the Dems response to jihadist terror sweeping the world.
Via Breitbart:
Libya is in chaos. Baghdad is about to fall to a new and toxic strain of Islamism. Syria is in civil war. Israeli teenagers have been kidnapped by terrorists.
Russia is expanding, taking over Crimea, threatening Ukraine. Russia and China have signed trade deals.
Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Sri Lanka has lead to terror killings. Thailand has been taken over by a military junta.
Somali radicals have attacked a Kenyan town, killing dozens.
President Obama’s critics accuse him of being soft or absent from most of these conflicts and many others. They say the US has ceded its global leadership role.
One area where the US under Obama has not retreated, indeed has ramped up American pressure, is in the promotion of LGBT rights. He issued a 2011 Presidential Memorandum that did just that.
Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts and 24 Democratic senators want to make this policy a part of U.S. law.
In legislation introduced last Friday, LGBT rights would become an official foreign policy priority of the United States and would include US training of “professional foreign military.”
The legislation would require the participation of all federal contractors, put US pressure on international institutions, and work in all global “sectors” including “economic, education, health, nutrition, legal and judicial…” The legislation calls for US pressure on individuals and also the family.
The legislation would also mandate that non-gay LGBT campaigners be given special refugee status in the United States.
The bill would establish a Special Envoy within the State Department, appointed by the President, to carry out the bill’s mandate. The Special Envoy would “direct all activities, policies, programs and funding relating to the human rights of LGBT people… for all bureaus and offices of the Department of State and in the international programs for all other Federal agencies….”