Journalist Chris Rufo’s latest report shows the United States has joined an international trend of embedding queer activists and priorities into government agencies, with consequences that include targeting Christians for government harassment.
Rufo notes, for example, that President Joe Biden appointed to the State Department as “a special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTI persons” a “gender activist” named Jessica Stern. Previously, Stern was executive director of OutRight Action International and helped found the LGBTI Core Group at the United Nations.
The United States is a leader in pushing foreign governments to put sexual activists like Stern on public payrolls. A recent report from the United Kingdom revealed coordinated campaigns between public officials and the country’s most influential LGBT group, Stonewall. The report found a “search and destroy” targeting of Christians in the U.K. resulting in loss of employment, unwarranted legal accusations, financial degradation, and harassment that has escalated in some cases to physical attacks.
“[T]here appears some evidence of a ‘search and destroy’ organisational approach by interest groups in education, business, banking, the health service, and even within government departments,” says the report from the Commission of Inquiry into Discrimination Against Christians. “Where this type of attack is experienced, there is very often an established link between the body in question and organisations such as Stonewall.”
The activists leftist politicians promote to taxpayer-paid positions are often politically extremist. U.S. activist groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Human Rights Campaign, for example, maliciously link Christians with hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, said Tyler O’Neil, managing editor of The Daily Signal. In a book out in January 2025, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government, O’Neil examines the Biden-Harris........