We urge media organizaions and voters to ask each candidiate his or her views on these fundamental points:

• What would your Administration do to elevate the importance of human rights in American foreign policy?
• Will your Administration include the fair and equal treatment of racial, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities as a cornerstone of U.S. human rights and democracy policies — and if so, how would that be expressed?
• What would your Administration do better to inform the American public of why respect, fairness and equality for all people, including LGBTI, should be a priority in both our foreign and domestic policies? What diplomatic or economic arguments would you offer to justify the use of U.S. taxpayer funding in support of LGBTI-affirming human rights and development policies?
• Secretary of State Pompeo recently launched a new "Commission on Unalienable Rights," a body that many civil rights groups see as an effort to elevate a conservtive religious viewpoint in order to justify discrimination against LGBTI people and women. Would you disband this Commission? And how would you balance the rights of some religious communities against those who use the cover of religious liberty to limit the rights of others, including LGBTI people?