Longtime GOP politician Sam Brownback is warning that the U.S. is diluting "human rights" and undermining their foundation by inappropriately applying that label to certain things. His comments came on Thursday, just before the United Nations Human Rights Day. The day is observed every year on Dec. 10 – the same day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. Brownback took special aim at the Biden administration, which he said isn't doing enough on human rights. "I don't think they've handled it [human rights] very well," said Brownback, who served as President Trump's U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. "I think they've gone back to the old route of trying to categorize too many things as a human right and not focusing on the basic ones," he added. "I think we're letting the foundation crumble on human rights by doing that. We're not taking care of the foundation and we're trying to build a bigger house on it." Brownback suggested returning to the "basics," arguing that religious freedom was a foundational right that shouldn't be put on the same level as others. "When you have – everything's a human right, then nothing's really a human right," said Brownback. "And it lets countries like China and Russia really belittle and pick and choose the human rights they will stand by." The Biden administration has declared, among other things, that "Transgender rights are human rights." It also reinstated an Obama-era provision for including abortion and contraception in the State Department's human rights report. (Fox News) Read more. | 
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