{"id":271910,"date":"2016-10-09T02:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/america-pays-300k-to-force-liberalism-and-lgbt-rights-on-macedonia-11\/"},"modified":"2016-10-09T02:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T02:45:18","slug":"america-pays-300k-to-force-liberalism-and-lgbt-rights-on-macedonia-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/america-pays-300k-to-force-liberalism-and-lgbt-rights-on-macedonia-11\/","title":{"rendered":"America Pays $300k to Force Liberalism and &#039;LGBT Rights&#039; on Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A reader passes along a government document putting out bids for a contract. Here\u2019s the top of the document:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"574\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/16\/10\/macedonia1.jpg\" width=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the (former Yugoslav) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Macedonia\" target=\"_blank\">Republic of Macedonia<\/a>, a small Balkan nation that emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia, is insufficiently progressive on LGBT issues. So the American government is spending $300,000 to undermine the traditional Orthodox Christian culture of the country. Excerpts from the document (emphases mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Macedonia has ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Human Rights\u00a0Convention. Through ratification of these human rights treaties, Macedonia has assumed obligations and\u00a0duties under international law to respect, to protect, and to fulfil human rights. Despite the adoption of\u00a0international human rights principles, which are incorporated in domestic legislation, Macedonia has\u00a0made little progress towards meeting European Union criteria in strengthening the rule of law and respect\u00a0for human rights according to international reports. In these terms, the country has still not met the\u00a0necessary requirements for EU membership. The 2015 EU Progress Report notes that \u201cLesbian, gay,\u00a0bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons continue to suffer discrimination and <strong>homophobic\u00a0media content, both online and offline<\/strong>\u2026 Considerable efforts are still needed <strong>to raise awareness of and\u00a0respect for diversity within society<\/strong> and to counter intolerance. This needs to be done through public\u00a0campaigns and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/america-pays-300k-to-force-liberalism-and-lgbt-rights-on-macedonia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader passes along a government document putting out bids for a contract. Here\u2019s the top of the document: Apparently the (former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia, a small Balkan nation that emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia, is insufficiently progressive on LGBT issues. So the American government is spending $300,000 to undermine the traditional Orthodox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}