Push to Promote LGBT Agenda Overseas Creates Backlash

Unless you believe that liberal policy is consciously malevolent, you might be tempted to say that if it didn’t have unintended consequences, it would have no consequence at all. An example is the U.S. effort to promote the LGBT agenda overseas, which has caused a backlash against the very deviants it is intended to champion:

The Human Rights Campaign is enraged that Egypt may enact a law that punishes waving the rainbow flag or otherwise promoting LGBT behavior. Yet Egypt is just the latest example in a global streak of laws and enforcement actions to chastise sodomy, homosexual lewdness, and LGBT advocacy, as the Washington Post reported last fall. African countries, Russia and ex-Soviet nations, as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and other Asian nations with significant Muslim populations, have all responded to increased pressure about LGBT policies during the Obama administration with punitive laws, policies to protect children from homosexual propaganda, and even police crackdowns on LGBT establishments and social circles.

Typically of liberal initiatives, the international LGBT push has caused problems where they did not exist by trying to fix them.

Although socially traditional, most of the countries where the backlash is hardest were never hotbeds of anti-gay sentiment, or especially dangerous for individuals who led an LGBT double life. They became so as a result of the relentless international pressure on LGBT issues from the U.S. State Department during the Obama administration, United Nations (UN) bureaucrats, the European Union, huge corporations, and LGBT groups backed by billionaires and western governments. …

This agenda antagonizes populations with traditional social norms and creates dangers for individuals who identify as LGBT.

No matter. The important thing is that moonbats back home who support the agenda feel smugly self-righteous about their well-meaning efforts.

Hat tip: Liberty Daily.