Trump Administration To Launch Fresh Assault On LGBT Rights With New Federal Commission On “Natural Law”
Politico reports:
The Trump administration plans to launch a new panel to offer “fresh thinking” on international human rights, a move some activists fear is aimed at narrowing protections for women and members of the LGBT community.
The new body, to be called the Commission on Unalienable Rights, will advise Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to a notice the State Department quietly published Thursday on the Federal Register.
“The Commission will provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights,” states the notice, which is dated May 22.
The State Department’s media contact for the new commission is former Fox News contributor Kiron Skinner. As many of you surely know, “natural law” is often cited by hate groups in legal briefs opposing LGBT rights.