{"id":905,"date":"2015-02-05T18:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=905"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:35:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:35:51","slug":"shocking-comments-by-republican-human-rights-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/shocking-comments-by-republican-human-rights-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Comments by Republican Human Rights Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2015 &#8211; African HRC Staff<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human Rights Chairman &#8211; \u2018Homosexual Rights Are Not Human Rights\u2019 Chris Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #4d044d;\">Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey, who currently serves as a senior member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and is chairman of its &#8220;Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organization Subcommittee,&#8221;\u00a0 has come under fire for comments he made during a January 27th subcomittee hearing- <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #4d044d;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #4d044d;\">He boldly told the panel- \u201cI am a strong believer in traditional marriage, and do not construe homosexual rights as human rights.\u201d Smith made his comments before badgering a witness as to whether &#8220;the Obama administration has hindered U.S. aid to Nigeria by supporting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more here:<\/strong> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africanhrc.org\/#!Shocking-Comments-by-Republican-Human-Rights-Chairman\/c1bm0\/54d3ab830cf27bee9f08e2c3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.africanhrc.org\/#!Shocking-Comments-by-Republican-Human-Rights-Chairman\/c1bm0\/54d3ab830cf27bee9f08e2c3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2015 &#8211; African HRC Staff Human Rights Chairman &#8211; \u2018Homosexual Rights Are Not Human Rights\u2019 Chris Smith Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey, who currently serves as a senior member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and is chairman of its &#8220;Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organization Subcommittee,&#8221;\u00a0 has come under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}