{"id":4086,"date":"2019-06-19T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senator-merkley-joins-16-senate-democrats-in-calling-out-state-departments-refusal-to-let-pride-flags-fly-at-embassies-2019\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:37","slug":"senator-merkley-joins-16-senate-democrats-in-calling-out-state-departments-refusal-to-let-pride-flags-fly-at-embassies-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senator-merkley-joins-16-senate-democrats-in-calling-out-state-departments-refusal-to-let-pride-flags-fly-at-embassies-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"El Senador Merkley se une a 16 dem\u00f3cratas del Senado para denunciar la negativa del Departamento de Estado a dejar ondear banderas del Orgullo en las embajadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC - El Senador de Oreg\u00f3n Jeff Merkley, miembro del Comit\u00e9 de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, anunci\u00f3 que se uni\u00f3 a 16 de sus colegas del Senado en oposici\u00f3n a la decisi\u00f3n del Departamento de Estado de rechazar las solicitudes de cuatro embajadas para enarbolar una bandera del arco\u00edris en los m\u00e1stiles de las embajadas en reconocimiento del mes del Orgullo. Tomando nota del Informe de derechos humanos del Departamento de Estado de este a\u00f1o que indica que &quot;la violencia y la discriminaci\u00f3n LGBTQI se mantuvieron generalizadas en todo el mundo en 2018&quot;, los senadores dejaron en claro cualquier decisi\u00f3n de limitar el apoyo oficial a los derechos de lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transg\u00e9nero, queer e intersexuales (LGBTQI). enviar\u00eda una se\u00f1al equivocada al resto del mundo sobre el compromiso de Estados Unidos con esta prioridad de pol\u00edtica exterior.<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s, la carta de los senadores le pide al secretario Pompeo que explique la decisi\u00f3n del Departamento de: 1) no emitir una declaraci\u00f3n oficial este a\u00f1o para conmemorar el mes del Orgullo, 2) no emitir un cable normalmente rutinario que describa las actividades de las embajadas para conmemorar el Orgullo, y 3) continuar para no llenar el puesto vacante de enviado especial LGBTQI.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>\u201cEsta comunidad requiere nuestro liderazgo moral y apoyo\u201d,<\/b> escriben los Senadores en la carta al Secretario de Estado Mike Pompeo. <b>\u201cPero impedir el vuelo oficial de banderas del arco\u00edris y limitar los mensajes p\u00fablicos que celebran el Mes del Orgullo indica a la comunidad internacional que Estados Unidos est\u00e1 abandonando el avance de los derechos LGBTQI como una prioridad de pol\u00edtica exterior\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Se puede encontrar una copia de la carta. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/State%20Department%20Pride%20Flag%20Letter.pdf\">AQU\u00cd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Otros senadores que firmaron la carta incluyen a los senadores Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders ( I-VT), Bob Casey (D-PA.), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Tina Smith (D-MN), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ed Markey (D -MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) y Patty Murray (D-WA).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced that he has joined 16 of his Senate colleagues in opposition to the State Department decision to reject requests from four embassies to fly a rainbow flag on embassy flagpoles in recognition of Pride month.&nbsp; Noting this year&rsquo;s State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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