Democrat Rep. Gerry Connolly voiced opposition to a bill condemning the persecution of Christians in Nigeria in the wake of the recent Plateau State massacres.
As the Daily Caller reported:Virginia Rep. Connolly opposed a bill on Tuesday condemning the persecution of Christians in Nigeria because it failed to also include the LGBTQ population. Connolly, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he didn’t favor the bill in its current form because it failed to encompass a broader condemnation of all persecution in Nigeria, including against “the gay and lesbian community.”
“Congress can’t simply say, ‘We’re only concerned about Christian persecution.’ We’re concerned about anyone’s human rights being violated,”and by the way, that includes the gay and lesbian community, which has suffered in Nigeria, among other African countries, [and] even at the hands of religious leaders, who have called for the death penalty because of somebody’s sexual orientation.”
“If we’re going to express ourselves with respect – as we should – it ought to be a comprehensive statement, not a particular group we single out, and basically say ‘That’s the one we’re concerned about,” Connolly added.
The International Christian Concern’s (ICC) 2023 report listed Nigeria among the world’s worst prosecutors of Christians
While Connolly is supposedly opposed to a bill only protecting one group of people, it’s hard to imagine he’d be singing the same tune if it were something more favorable to the progressive cause, such as a bill protecting a single specific race from whatever the trendy “systemic” issue of the day is, or one condemning violence against the participants in any other religion besides Christianity.
After the aforementioned Christmas that left nearly 200 dead, unreadable publications such as The Guardian and Reuters blamed climate change for the murders, claiming that the Muslim attackers were massacring Christians (but not other Muslims for some unexplained reason) over competition for natural resources. Maybe Connelly’s next complaint will be that the bill doesn’t condemn inaction on “climate change” next.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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