How Trump and the Christian right saved LGBTI human rights: a religious freedom mystery
Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.
| Zusammenfassung: | Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Setting the Table for SOGI Human Rights -- From Obama to Trump -- SOGI Yesterday -- The Players -- Trump and "His" Christian Conservatives -- The Frame and a Framer -- Personnel as Policy -- Team "Deep State" -- Defining My Terms -- A Map of the Book -- Chapter 1: The Christian Right as Anti-SOGI Interest Group -- Losing in the US and Looking Abroad -- SOGI Human Rights vs. Religious Freedom -- What Lies Beneath -- Under Obama, the US Government Was an Agent of Cultural Imperialism -- The US Should Adopt Cultural Relativism about LGBT Rights Abroad -- The US Should Ally with Anti-LGBT Governments and Peoples -- SOGI Human Rights Was Perpetrated by the Anti-Trump "Deep State" -- The Wages of Spin -- Chapter 2: His Christian Conservatives -- Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, 2018 -- Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, 2019 -- Commission on Unalienable Rights, Part 1 -- The 68th Annual National Prayer Breakfast -- Commission on Unalienable Rights, Part 2 -- Chapter 3: The Human Rights of Tillerson and Pompeo: Who Was Minding the SOGI Store? -- Straight Talks -- Secretary Tillerson -- What's That on "Our" Shoulder? -- The Business of Foreign Policy -- Who We Are vs. What We Do -- Secretary Pompeo -- Standing in the Gap -- Our Light under a Bushel -- For Such a Time as This -- Being a Christian Leader -- Different Blokes for Different Folks -- Chapter 4: On the Trail of SOGI in the Time of Trump -- SOGI Supply -- Public Diplomacy -- State Department Mission Statement -- LGBTI Embassy Engagement -- Pride/IDAHOT Events and Statements -- Initiative to Support Decriminalization Worldwide -- Diplomacy -- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices -- Responses to LGBT Persecution -- LGBTI Special Envoy -- Human Rights Council -- Sanctions under the Magnitsky Act -- Equal Rights Coalition. |
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| ISBN: | 143848884X |