NBC NEWS: President Joe Biden has issued a historic memorandum committing the United States to promoting LGBTQ rights on the international stage.

Released to the public Thursday evening, the Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World directs American agencies operating abroad "to ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBTQ persons."

It calls for agencies to combat criminalization of LGBTQ identity or conduct, protect LGBTQ refugees and asylum-seekers, address human rights abuses affecting LGBTQ people and work with like-minded nations and international organizations to combat discrimination. There are approximately 70 countries around the world that currently have laws criminalizing same-sex relations between consenting adults, according to the Human Rights Watch. (To read the full article Click Here.)

Ron: While to some it may seem that the new US President is spending a lot of time making gay people equal in the sight of the law, it is to be remembered that the previous holder of that office did every thinkable thing to thwart, hinder, and reverse the rights of gay people. Biden is just pulling the laws back into the scales of justice for all.