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Trump administration keeps Obama’s LGBT envoy

February 17, 2017

The Trump administration has decided not to eliminate the position of Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, a position created by the Obama administration in 2015.

Randy Berry, the special envoy since 2015, will remain in the position, according to Foreign Policy.

 

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  • Posted by: Randal Mandock - Feb. 17, 2017 7:11 AM ET USA

    Between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand we have the dignity of the human person, but on the other we have behavior detestable to God. Difficult to reconcile in a pluralistic world.

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Today's Memorial of Saints Cornelius (d. 253) and Cyprian (190-258) commemorates two friends in the service of Christ and his Church. Cornelius, a Roman, was the twenty-first Pope during the reign of the Emperor Gallus and Volusian. He had to oppose Novatian, the first anti-pope, who believed that apostates…

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