Masha Gessen - Advocate for Destruction of Marriage - Honored Last Week by State Department

Because there is little else going on in the world these days that demands the attention of the U.S. Department of State and the Obama administration, you might be interested to hear that LGBT activist Masha Gessen - author of Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot and many other works - was honored at last Thursday’s now annual State Department Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies Pride Event (GLIFAA). The event took place on the very same day that thousands marched nearby in the 2014 March for Marriage.

Secretary of State John Kerry introduced Gessen at the GLIFAA event, telling the audience that here in these United States, we think she’s a wonderful person, and we’re honored by her presence here. Most well known as an outspoken critic of the Russian government on LGBT issues, Gessen is also an author who has written and spoken extensively on LGBT issues and her opinion that the institution of marriage should be extinguished altogether.

I agree that it’s a no-brainer that we should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it is a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. So, uhhh…that causes my brain some trouble, and part of why it causes me trouble is because fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there, because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change…um, and again, I don’t think it should exist.

For all the lip service they give to terms like ‘tolerance,’ events like this - honoring guests like Masha Gessen - certainly do little to convince anyone that the Obama administration actually stands for the tolerance of anything that exists outside of their radical leftwing agenda. Especially not when it comes to traditional family values.