WASHINTON, D.C., January 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has vowed to fill a position that was created during the Obama administration: “United States Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons.”
Blinken said this in comments to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week.
The position was originally created in 2015 by then-Secretary of State John Kerry to oversee the government’s efforts to “support the human rights of LGBT people around the world.” Randy Berry, an American diplomat, was chosen as the U.S. Envoy for “LGBTI Rights,” but later vacated the role when he was nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. After that, the role remained vacant during the rest of Trump’s presidency.
Now, according to Blinken, filling the role is a matter “of some real urgency.” Blinken stated concern over increased violence as a reason to fill the office again: “We’ve seen, I believe, the highest number of murders of transgender people, particularly women of color, that we’ve seen ever.”
“And so I think the United States playing the role that it should be playing in standing up
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors