U.S. Foreign Policy & LGBTQIA+ Advocacy

By Mark Tooley on January 14, 2022

The U.S. State Department is accepting applications from LGBTQIA+ advocacy groups for grants totaling $2.5 million. The deadline is Feb. 4 for funding from the new Global LGBTQI+ Inclusive Democracy and Empowerment Fund. This project showcases the further embedding of liberal culture war promotion into U.S. foreign policy.

Our foreign policy should promote U.S. national interests, which include democracy and historic human rights, not transgenderism, LGBTQI+ advocacy, and abortion. Americans share a consensus about the promotion of democracy, but not about the exporting of a progressive culture war that undermines U.S. national interests.

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Democracy | LGBTQIA+ | Summit for Democracy | Union Seminary | USAID

Mark Tooley is IRD’s president and editor of IRD’s foreign policy and national security journal, Providence. Prior to joining the IRD in 1994, Mark worked eight years for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and is a native of Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of Taking Back The United Methodist Church, published in 2008; Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century, published in 2012; and The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War, published in 2015.

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