Obama Bans LGBT Human Rights Violators From Entering U.S.

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Aug 8, 2011 in Inspirgaytion | 8 comments

Thank you, Mr. President!

You might remember David Bahati from such atrocities as the authoring of the Ugandan Kill the Gays Bill, or threatening to prosecute Ugandan lesbian Brenda Namigadde (Re: Killing the gays) unless she repented her homosexuality.

Rachel Maddow shared our outrage and concern when Bahati was invited into America last year to speak at a conservative event before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped to send his ass back back to Uganda. Like many, we wondered how the hell a homophobic foreign politician with very public plans to literally kill the LGBT citizens under his jurisdiction could have made it into American in the first place.

Well, that won’t be happening ever again. President Obama last week signed a proclamation barring entry to the United States for all violators of LGBT human rights. And he’ll be using America’s ruler to measure, rather than say, Uganda’s.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION

The United States enduring commitment to respect for human rights and humanitarian law requires that its Government be able to ensure that the United States does not become a safe haven for serious violators of human rights and humanitarian law and those who engage in other related abuses. Universal respect for human rights and humanitarian law and the prevention of atrocities internationally promotes U.S. values and fundamental U.S. interests in helping secure peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises around the globe. I therefore have determined that it is in the interests of the United States to take action to restrict the international travel and to suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of certain persons who have engaged in the acts outlined in section 1 of this proclamation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of persons described in section 1 of this proclamation would be detrimental to the interests of the United States. I therefore hereby proclaim that: Section 1. The entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of the following persons is hereby suspended:

(a) Any alien who planned, ordered, assisted, aided and abetted, committed or otherwise participated in, including through command responsibility, widespread or systematic violence against any civilian population based in whole or in part on race; color; descent; sex; disability; membership in an indigenous group; language; religion; political opinion; national origin; ethnicity; membership in a particular social group; birth; or sexual orientation or gender identity, or who attempted or conspired to do so.

(b) Any alien who planned, ordered, assisted, aided and abetted, committed or otherwise participated in, including through command responsibility, war crimes, crimes against humanity or other serious violations of human rights, or who attempted or conspired to do so.

You go, Mr. President!

And yes, we know this is not a federal law calling for same-sex marriage rights. Apples and oranges, man. This proclamation is another wonderful notch on our president’s LGBT rights belt. Marriage equality is coming, faster than you may believe. In the meantime, big thanks to Mr. Obama.

Now if only we could do something about domestic LGBT human rights violators…

http://www.facebook.com/Hamilin89 Thomas David Hamilton

give me the right to marry and you WILL have my vote so bring it ^_^
http://www.facebook.com/people/Cobalt-Blaze/100000556002895 Cobalt Blaze

i hereby state that i support obama in many more ways now than i ever did, though i still say he could learn to have his people start thinking of internal investments so the country doesn’t go bankrupt. could help by re-opening abandoned businesses to help bring in money for starters and maybe forcibly collecting if necessary from those who do not respect the help they gained from said country,refusing to pay due to claims of certain levels of bullshit and so on, now the US needs to deal with those issues.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000451850693 Ashley Valencia

Good.
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Landon-Smith/100000657413650 Landon Smith

So when Westboro goes to “protest” the funeral of those killed in Oslo’s terrorist attacks, they won’t be allowed back in, right?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1087703916 Ben Leo Alt

Unfortunately, as long as they don’t act violently, no. If one of the members does start violence, then maybe, seeing as it did include nonimmigrants.

http://www.facebook.com/claire.hodges Claire Hodges

You know, while I haven’t appreciated Obama’s stance on marriage equality, I can appreciate this.

YOU GO OBAMA! m/
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-Clymer/580444047 Nathan Clymer

@facebook-100000657413650:disqus , while I do agree with you that Westboro is just a horrible group that has extemist ideas and “protests” that make me sicker than anything I can think of, technically what they are doing isn’t illegal. I wish it was, but it isn’t… As long as violence isn’t involved, a protest is just that, a protest. And it’s included in the first amendment of free speech that they have a right, just like any of us, to say what they feel… Even if it is disgusting, hateful bigotry…
Anonymous

This last week Obama, summoning up all the warped acting abilities that enabled him to run as the candidate of ‘hope and change’ shamelessly announced that individuals who have participated in war crimes or other serious human rights abuses would not be allowed entry into the United States. “I therefore have determined that it is in the interests of the United States to take action to restrict the international travel and to suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrant’s, of certain persons who have engaged in the acts outlined in section 1 of this proclamation.” That refers to persons who “planned, ordered, assisted, aided and abetted, committed or otherwise participated in “widespread violence against a group of people”. The proclamation lists sexual orientation and gender identity. The greatest war criminals in recent history, at least since the LBJ-Nixon genocide in Vietnam, are the Bushes, Bill Clinton and Obama himself. If Obama wants to implement that policy he’d have to withdraw all US troops to home bases and then surrender himself at the Hague. This is a brazen exercise in propaganda from the man most responsible in the world today for expanding aggressive wars for oil and resources to other countries and for the deaths of civilians and GI’s. We need to continue to call for the convening of an International War Crimes Tribunal to investigate both Bushes, Clinton, Obama and their cabinets in the wars they generated, including two separate waves of genocide in Iraq. If Obama wants to ease the plight of GLBT victims of violence he and H. Clinton can open the doors of US embassies and consulates and the 750 US military bases that gird the globe and offer unlimited asylum and social services to LGBT and other victims of war crimes. He can let Brad Manning go and give him a Medal of Honor. He can get out of Iraq, Afghanistan and end the attacks on Palestine, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya. the Sudan, Somalia, Bahrain and elsewhere.
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