{"id":713754,"date":"2021-09-03T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=713754"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:05:50","slug":"cnn-analyst-bakari-sellers-says-the-gop-is-homophobic-he-lobbies-for-a-country-where-its-illegal-to-be-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-analyst-bakari-sellers-says-the-gop-is-homophobic-he-lobbies-for-a-country-where-its-illegal-to-be-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Analyst Bakari Sellers Says the GOP Is Homophobic. He Lobbies for a Country Where It\u2019s Illegal To Be Gay."},"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\">40<\/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%2Fcnn-analyst-bakari-sellers-says-the-gop-is-homophobic-he-lobbies-for-a-country-where-its-illegal-to-be-gay%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=713754&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 readability=\"30.222222222222\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dem operative registered to lobby for Liberia<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-584256110-736x466-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-584256110-e1630687627325.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-584256110-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-584256110-1024x648.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-584256110-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-584256110-1536x972.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-584256110-1400x886.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tCNN analyst Bakari Sellers (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 September 3, 2021 1:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"71.273768043803\">\n<p>A CNN analyst and Democratic operative who says the Republican Party opposes gay rights has registered to lobby as a foreign agent of the government of Liberia, which criminalizes homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Bakari Sellers will work for the Liberian government to promote President George Weah to African-American audiences, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/7006-Exhibit-AB-20210901-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a contract<\/a> that Sellers&#8217;s firm, Strom Public Affairs, filed this week with the Justice Department. The $10,000-per-month contract calls for Sellers to identify American media opportunities for Weah that will present him as &#8220;an emerging voice for the future of Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the United States has positive relations with Liberia, the State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/liberia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has flagged<\/a> &#8220;significant&#8221; human rights issues in the African nation, including arbitrary police killings, serious restrictions on the free press, child labor violations, and legal prohibitions on same-sex conduct between adults.<\/p>\n<p>Liberia is 1 of nearly 70 nations that criminalize homosexuality. Same-sex acts are punishable by up to one year in prison, and gay marriage is outlawed. Jewel Taylor, the vice president of Liberia, in 2012 proposed a law that would make homosexual acts a felony punishable by death. Taylor is the ex-wife of Charles Taylor, a former Liberian president and convicted war criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Liberia&#8217;s anti-gay laws appear to conflict with Sellers&#8217;s record as a pundit and attorney. Sellers, who served in the South Carolina House of Representatives through 2014, has repeatedly accused Republicans in the United States of opposing gay rights. He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bakari_Sellers\/status\/765258067298705408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> then-candidate Donald Trump in a 2016 tweet&nbsp;to comment on the &#8220;oppression of gays in Russia.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bakari_Sellers\/status\/782199253808648193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Mike Pence would start the first 2016 vice-presidential debate with &#8220;a prayer for \u2018The Gays.'&#8221; And he won a 2017 case before the South Carolina Supreme Court that made domestic violence laws apply to same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>Sellers did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Dem operative registered to lobby for Liberia  CNN analyst Bakari Sellers (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)  Chuck Ross \u2022 September 3, 2021 1:50 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713754","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}