"We write to you as concerned Christian ministers and churches from the Caribbean region (including the Bahamas) who hope and pray that the United States, under your leadership, will once again cast light from 'The City upon a Hill'... Sadly, during recent years, that City has too often cast shadows instead of light. We refer specifically to the policies of the U.S. State Department and other government agencies involved in foreign policy that have undertaken to coerce our countries into accepting a mistaken version of marriage.

[But] the promotion of 'gay' rights must come at the expense of human rights because the two are immiscible. One is founded on the 'Laws of Nature and Nature's God' and the other on moral relativism, which eviscerates the very idea of natural rights. If you have one, you cannot have the other. As it turns out, the Obama administration, among others, has shown this to be so, as so-called 'gay rights' are pre-empting human rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and freedom of conscience.

We implore you urgently to review this matter, to revoke relevant executive orders and policies, and to thus to restore to 'The City upon a Hill' the bright beam that once shone from it."

Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.

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