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LAND OF CONFUSION AT U.N.: Is Obama Administration Now Putting Gays Before Muslims? (Guests in EDT)
If ever there was an appropriate arena for the axiom, “You can’t be all things to all people,” it’s Washington, where the liberal agenda so often guided by political correctness is inclined to double back on and conflict with itself.
Case in point: When Barack Obama made it a top priority to deliver a speech to the Muslim world just a few months into his term as President, it clashed with many Americans who saw themselves as being dismissed by their own leader.
But now, as international relations expert and VP for Research at the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), Susan Yoshihara, observes, the Obama administration’s similar outspoken commitment to the homosexual community is causing some policy confusion.
Yoshihara’s C-FAM organization is dedicated to following and participating in issues related to social policy at the United Nations. She writes in her most recent article published on the C-FAM website (posted at the link provided below) of how the U.S. aggressively reprimanded Egypt for calling into question the idea of granting the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission consultative status with the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council.
In fact, Yoshihara points out that Obama’s U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice (pictured, foreground) was so adamant about the U.S. position on the matter, that she made quite a few bold, groundless claims in defense of gay community rights. The problem is, this attack was carried out against Egypt, a key Muslim state in Obama’s highly criticized Islam-outreach strategy.
So, has the Obama team painted itself into a corner? Why the bombastic push for a gay-rights seat at the U.N.’s social policy table? And can a homosexual-advocacy President ever really appease nations of Islam that are so intolerant of “alternative” lifestyles?
Call Special Guests to schedule an interview with Susan Yoshihara—or C-FAM’s director, Austin Ruse. Find out more about this issue, as well as what kind of realistic impact a gay-community consultative status would have on U.N. social policy.
FIND MS. YOSHIHARA’S ARTICLE AT:
http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1661/pub_detail.asp
ABOUT SUSAN YOSHIHARA:
Susan Fink Yoshihara is C-FAM Vice President for Research and Director of the International Organizations Research Group (IORG). Her research interests include intervention, human rights, and humanitarianism in international law and politics. She is the author of Waging War to Make Peace: U.S. Intervention in Global Conflicts.
Before joining C-FAM, Susan was on the faculty at the U.S. Naval War College where she taught national security decision-making and international relations. In her twenty-year career as a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, she held the rank of Commander, led combat logistics and search and rescue units in the Pacific and Persian Gulf, advised the Atlantic Fleet commander, and worked for the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade as a White House Fellow. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received her Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. She and her husband Toshi have one daughter and live in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
ABOUT AUSTIN RUSE:
Austin Ruse has headed the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) since shortly after its creation in the summer of 1997. Mr. Ruse has held the title of President since 2000.
Ruse or his team have participated in every major UN social policy negotiation since 1997 including the multi-year negotiations that created the International Criminal Court.
He has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate on U.N. matters, as well as briefing White House and National Security Council staff. Ruse has also briefed senior government officials, journalists, Church and non-governmental leaders from around the world.
Austin has appeared on a number of national cable network programs discussing UN and Catholic issues, including news programs on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC and Fox News and has been published in First Things, The Washington Times, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, Human Events and Touchstone, as well as newspapers around the world. He is a biweekly columnist for TheCatholicThing.org and founder of the foreign affairs blog, TheNewSovereigntists.org/
A former foreign affairs commentator for EWTN's weekly news broadcast The World Over, hosted by Raymond Arroyo, Austin also lectures widely on U.N. matters, appearing throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Latin America, the Far East and Europe.
About C-FAM:
C-FAM was founded in the summer of 1997 in order to monitor and affect the social policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions.
C-FAM is a non-partisan, non-profit research institute dedicated to reestablishing a proper understanding of international law, protecting national sovereignty and the dignity of the human person.
C-FAM personnel have participated in every major UN social policy debate since 1997 including the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court, the Convention on Disabilities, Cairo 5, Beijing 5 and dozens of others.
C-FAM publishes and promotes scholarships related to the proposition that the UN and other international institutions harm a true understanding of international law and, in the process, undermine the family and other institutions man requires for a just, free and happy life.
C-FAM regularly interfaces with diplomats, policy makers, academics, activists and office holders from around the world.
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