Leftist media organizations such as Salon and ThinkProgress are working overtime to create enmity between the Trump administration and the LGBTQ community after the administration voted "no" on the latest United Nations death penalty resolution.
Instead of reporting the actual reasons why the U.S. voted against the resolution, the left honed in on a single section of the resolution that called for an end to the death penalty for gays in certain Muslim countries, accusing the Trump administration of refusing to condemn homosexuals being put to death.
In reality, the U.S. does not criminalize consensual gay relationships, nor does it condone such laws in countries that do – a matter that State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert tried to make very clear.
An article from the Washington Examiner quotes Nauert saying, "The United States unequivocally condemns the application of the death penalty for conduct such as homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery, and apostasy. We do not consider such conduct appropriate for criminalization."
State Department officials added the U.S. voted "no" that the resolution was an overly broad measure and was at odds with U.S. death penalty laws at both the state and federal level. Nauru echoed this viewpoint, saying, "The United States clearly has the death penalty, both at the state and the federal level; that is why we voted against this."
The actual resolution in question encourages the widespread abolition of the death penalty – not simply for gays – due to its notorious history of human rights abuses as defined by the UN. The U.S. has voted "no" to all previous UN resolutions to abolish the death penalty except for last year, when the Obama administration chose to abstain.
However, Nauert's position was obviously not enough for the leftist media organization ThinkProgress, who insinuated that the Nauer's explanation was insufficient.
Give me a break.