{"id":1710311,"date":"2022-10-25T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710311"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:19:06","slug":"state-department-doubles-down-on-funding-drag-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-doubles-down-on-funding-drag-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Doubles Down on Funding Drag Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-department-doubles-down-on-funding-drag-shows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710311&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/38e89a78-2140-4276-9bb2-1b49f381e88e-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>As RedState <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/smoosieq\/2022\/10\/19\/us-taxpayer-dollars-now-funding-drag-theater-performances-in-ecuador-n645854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously reported<\/a>, the US State Department gave tens of thousands of dollars to a facility in Ecuador to facilitate \u201cdrag shows.\u201d That news was delivered amidst an onslaught of transgender propaganda being pushed by the Biden administration. On Sunday evening, the president sat down with a man who claims to be a teenage girl going through \u201cgirlhood\u201d to proclaim his support for physically mutilating children in the name of \u201cgender-affirming care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(see <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2022\/10\/23\/joe-bidens-disturbing-out-of-touch-transgender-interview-is-the-absolute-state-of-things-n647868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden\u2019s Disturbing, Out-of-Touch Transgender Interview Is the Absolute State of Things<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2022\/04\/01\/biden-administration-decides-mutilating-children-is-a-civil-right-n543775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had claimed<\/a> that such procedures were a \u201ccivil right,\u201d chastizing those who have sought to stop what they view as abuse of children in the name of transgender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Given all that, it was no surprise to learn that taxpayer money is being used by the State Department to fund drag shows in Central American countries. Their excuse? That it provides a place for transgender people \u201cto express themselves freely and safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The State Department is defending\u00a0a $20,600 grant for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/regions\/south-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cultural center in Ecuador<\/a> to host \u201cdrag theater performances,\u201d saying it gives LGBTQ people an outlet \u201cto express themselves freely and safely\u201d in the South American country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-department-funding-drag-theater-performances-ecuador-promote-diversity-inclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News Digital first reported<\/a> on Wednesday that the State Department awarded the grant on Sept. 23 to the Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano (CEN), a non-profit organization supported by the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Ecuador, to \u201cpromote diversity and inclusion\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m curious when it became the mission of the State Department to inject itself into the cultures of other nations. I was under the impression it existed to negotiate agreements and to maintain diplomatic relations with other countries relevant to US foreign policy. Yet, taxpayer money is being used not to advance the governmental relationship with Ecuador, but to push for far-left, on-the-ground cultural narratives.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself this. If their decision to do so is really about lowering the chances of danger and discrimination, why isn\u2019t the State Department funding churches in nations where Christians are being persecuted? What is it about men wanting to dress up as women that demand such special attention and use of finite resources?<\/p>\n<p>I think we know the answer to that. This isn\u2019t about actually stopping discrimination. As if rubbing the nose of mostly Catholic Ecuadorans in what they view as immorality is going to do that. Rather, it\u2019s about the globalization of something the left sees as helpful to its overall ideology. It\u2019s about attempting to turn the entire world into some bastardized version of Western Europe, not to help people, but to consolidate power.<\/p>\n<p>The embarrassment is the point. The Biden administration wants to beat you down. They want to make you pay for things you find morally objectionable, whether it\u2019s drag shows, abortion, or something else. They want to make you feel helpless in the face of their deranged onslaught, pushing you to the point of exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, their attempts to do so should only push you to fight back harder. You do not have to accept this lunacy, and all it will take is enough Americans standing up to say enough for this to stop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nTrending on Redstate Video\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As RedState previously reported, the US State Department gave tens of thousands of dollars to a facility in Ecuador to facilitate \u201cdrag shows.\u201d That news was delivered amidst an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}