Kerry apologizes for State Department discrimination against LGBT employees
Theodore Schleifer
Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who is the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote a letter to Kerry, published by the Washington Blade, asking that he ”take steps to remedy a deep stain on our national history and that of the State Department itself: The legacy of the ’lavender scare’ in which hundreds of State Department employees were dismissed from service because of their perceived sexual orientation.
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