Religious Freedom, Democracy, and Obama's Neglect of Both

What do the following policies and world views have in common?
If you advocate men and women working together, you will be put to death.
If you're an apostate, you will be put to death.
If you proselytize, you will be put to death.
If you're a Jew, you will be put to death.
If you advocate for women's' rights you should at least be beaten, and probably be put to death.
If you're a homosexual you will be put to death.
If you're a married woman that is raped, you will be beaten or stoned to death for adultery.

What these all have in common is that they come from countries that don't have religious freedom. As much as my atheist and secularist friends deny it, the freedoms we have are based in religion. In Western civilization the things mentioned above don't happen.

In Tibet, Chinese "security forces" beat to death a man passing out leaflets supporting the Dali Lama. China sees a "religion problem" and Christians and Buddhists are murdered or "disappeared" on a regular basis. Murder of citizens that disagree with the State you don't see in Western Civilization.

I'm not convinced our current administration sees all this as so horrible. There's a Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom within the Department of State created to advocate for religious freedom internationally. The position was created in 1998 by the International Religious Freedom Act. It was created because Pew Research found that about 70% of the world's population doesn't have religious freedom.

The Obama administration has waited 18 months to fill this position, finally naming a pastor by the name of Susan Johnson Cook. Looking at her site I see a lot of Leftist stuff, and I don't see any international experience. This administration has let this ambassadorship lay fallow, and the staff there has been hanging out, getting paid, and not doing much of anything. Johnson taking this position will have no effect on that. Obama has stripped all influence from this position.

I don't think Obama supports religious freedom because it'll interfere with his Muslim outreach. I think where there's religious freedom there's strong democracy, and Obama is a Statist that believes in the State over democracy and certainly over God.

I'm concerned that Susan Johnson uses religion to advance political agendas, rather than Christ's Salvation. She's involved with "One America" formerly known as "Hate Free Zone", a pro-illegal immigration lobby. When I look at her history I see Leftist causes and Race advocacy, not advocacy for Christianity, for religion, for America.

I see nothing in this appointment or in Obama's attitude toward this ambassadorship that will move religious freedom forward; or Democracy for that matter.