Caribbean church leaders beg U.S. to stop promoting LGBT rights
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- <table width="640"> <tbody> <tr> <td>Nearly 300 religious officials from the Caribbean and Guyana have urged the U.S.
- to no longer promote LGBT and intersex rights abroad.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The 289 ministers who are from the Bahamas, St.
- Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana made the request in a letter sent to US President Donlad Trump recently.
- “Sadly, during recent years, that City has too often cast shadows instead of light.”</td> </tr> <tr> <td>“We refer specifically to the policies of the U.S.
- State Department and other government agencies involved in foreign policy that have undertaken to coerce our countries into accepting a mistaken version of marriage,” it continues.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The letter referred to the appointment of Randy Berry as the special U.S.
| Nearly 300 religious officials from the Caribbean and Guyana have urged the U.S. to no longer promote LGBT and intersex rights abroad. |
| The 289 ministers who are from the Bahamas, St. Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana made the request in a letter sent to US President Donlad Trump recently.
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| “We write to you as concerned Christian ministers and churches from the Caribbean region (including the Bahamas) who hope and pray that the United States, under your leadership, will once again cast a light from ‘The City upon a Hill’ of which your American forefathers and President Ronald Reagan so frequently spoke,” reads the letter. “Sadly, during recent years, that City has too often cast shadows instead of light.” |
| “We refer specifically to the policies of the U.S. State Department and other government agencies involved in foreign policy that have undertaken to coerce our countries into accepting a mistaken version of marriage,” it continues. |
| The letter referred to the appointment of Randy Berry as the special U.S. envoy for the promotion of LGBT and intersex rights in 2015 was central to “the promotion of same-sex marriage” in American foreign policy.
It also questions then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2011 speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council in which she said “gay rights are human rights.” |
