National Security Advisor Susan Rice rebukes Russia, Brunei, and
Uganda over gay rights
Raw Story & AFP - 7 hours ago
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 8:58 EDT
Topics: barack obama ♦ gay rights ♦ National Security Advisor Susan Rice
A top aide to President Barack Obama Tuesday singled out nations
including Russia, Uganda and Brunei as the worst transgressors against
gay rights — and warned governments everywhere must outlaw
discrimination.
National Security Advisor Susan Rice told a forum of Lesbian, Gay,
bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) activists at the White House that the
choice to love a partner of the same sex was a fundamental human
right.
"In many places, allies and supporters of the LGBT community are also
penalized," Rice said.
"New laws in Uganda and Nigeria incite the fear of arrest and
detention for those who provide health services or defend basic legal
rights in court.
"In addition to the pernicious so-called 'propaganda' law already on
the books, proposed legislation in Russia would allow the government
to take children away from their gay parents," Rice warned.
"In seven countries — eight, if Brunei continues on its path —
same-sex acts are punishable by death."
Rice said that laws limiting gay rights around the world often have
strong public support and that it was up to local authorities to
ensure that cultural differences did not become an excuse for human
rights violations.
"Governments are responsible for protecting the rights of all
citizens, and it is incumbent upon the state, and upon each of us, to
foster tolerance and reverse the tide of discrimination."
Obama has made a point of putting the fight for LGBT rights around the
world at the center of US foreign policy.
Washington for instance, last week cancelled a military air exercise,
imposed visa bans and froze some aid to Uganda over what it said was
the country's "vile" anti-gay laws.
Last year, while on a trip to Senegal, Obama told Africans that people
should be treated equally under the law whatever their race, religion,
gender or sexual orientation.
In February, Obama included gay athletes in the US delegation to the
Sochi Winter Olympics to show the United States would not abide
discrimination in international sport.
The move followed a warning by a senior Russian official that athletes
or spectators should not promote gay rights during the Olympics
following the passage of controversial anti-gay legislation in Russia.
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