https://www.hrc.org/press/unreal-anti-lgbt-activist-jay-sekulow-to-receive-human-rights-award Unreal: Anti-LGBT Activist Jay Sekulow to Receive Human Rights Award WASHINGTON – Last week, The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America, representing one of the world’s largest Christian denominations, announced that Jay Sekulow will be the next recipient of their annual Athenagoras Human Rights Award. Sekulow is the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a group that actively advocated against the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people worldwide. According to the organization’s website, the award is given annually to a person or organization that “has consistently exemplified by action, purpose and dedication, concern for the basic rights and religious freedom of all people.” Since 1986, five Nobel Peace Prize laureates have received the award, including Mother Theresa, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, former President Jimmy Carter, Elie Weisel, and former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev. "Perhaps the very last person I'd put on the same list as Mother Teresa and Archbishop Desmond Tutu is Jay Sekulow," said Sharon Groves, Director of the Human Right Campaign's (HRC) Religion and Faith Program "Their legacies of compassion, understanding and acceptance truly define what it means to be an advocate for justice and human rights. Jay Sekulow has dedicated much of his career to advocating against the basic freedoms, rights, and even safety of LGBT people in the United States and around the world. To honor Sekulow and his anti-LGBT bigotry with this award is not only shocking, but it contradicts the Christian commitment to protect the human dignity of all." ACLJ’s materials are often explicitly homophobic, and their fundraising emails signed by Sekulow have warned that the homosexual agenda is “bent on destroying our communities” and “the family as we know it.” They’ve claimed that the state has a compelling interest to ban the act of homosexuality and have even advocated for writing discrimination into the constitution by securing 415,000 signed petitions in favor of a Federal Marriage Amendment. ACLJ has also fought efforts against same-sex marriage in a number of states including Washington State, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Furthermore, ACLJ and Sekulow have defended sodomy laws as well as the right to harass and exclude lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people from fully and equally participating in society. Among other things, Sekulow was a staunch supporter of the Defense Against Marriage Act, has spoken out against school policies protecting LGBT students from harassment, and claimed that allowing openly gay Boy Scout Leaders would lead to the targeting of religious schools. Sekulow is also active abroad, and through ACLJ’s affiliate offices in other countries, he lobbies foreign officials to “take the Christian's views into consideration as they draft legislation and policies," according to its website. In Zimbabwe, the office has worked with Dictator Robert Mugabe to keep same-sex marriage and homosexuality a criminal offense and does work in Kenya to shape laws to fit ACLJ’s vision of “family values” The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all ### Contact HRC Phone: (202) 628-4160 Fax: (202) 347-5323 To contact HRC please visit our contact us page. If you are a member of the media, you can reach our press office at: Remember a collaborator to they managed to get. Insurance companies booking notes and a camp guard.
as a straight person with a family (bestowing family values in pretty much the way they were bestowed upon me) this statement stands out: "ACLJ’s materials are often explicitly homophobic, and their fundraising emails signed by Sekulow have warned that the homosexual agenda is “bent on destroying our communities” and “the family as we know it.” Our "communities and family" don't need any help from gays in their mission of self destruction. In other words if homosexuality or any aspect of gender bender activity were gone tomorrow our family and community problems would not go away. We have much bigger problems on our plate and each family/community has their own unique problems to solve that have zero to do with LGBT. More proof that all the awards and prizes are total bullshit.
Yeah Trump whole legal dream team isn't the best. MA charged a guy on pastor got on tape in Zambia parliamanet, The partor was charged with human rights abuse, crimes against humanity.
Jay Sekulow's about as Christian as Jerry Falwell, and half as charismatic as Falwell's current state.
Isn't he a personal injury lawyer in Floriduh? At any rate, an award for being a humanitarian supporting religious freedom? I don't think so. Should be an award for pushing religious fanaticism and destroying anyone who isn't the right type of WASP. That would be a little more honest.
Someone once said (I forget who off the top of my head) "Dignity is not concerned with the awards you receive, but with the awards you deserve" I think that may be one of the most important life lessons any of us could ever learn right there. Fuck this guy and fuck his award.
