Discrimination, pure BS. WTF did you expect to happen. Would Obama have the balls to send an openly gay ambassador to the Vatican. Would they recognize the 6 wives of an Arab diplomat? Hell no. Just another attempt by the left to bully a small country to conform to their beliefs. The catholic church is against gay marriage and by not having the spouse listed as one the US knows gay marriage is a no go in the DR. Both ambassadors should be recalled and replaced with diplomats that respect Dominican culture. And maybe speak Spanish.............
Balls have nothing to do with it other than the fact that some people think that there should be twice as many on the invitation than indicated.
There were U.S. Ambassadors to Australia, Spain and Denmark chosen at the same time as the U.S. Ambassador to the D.R. who are also all openly Gay and I haven't heard a peep out of any of those countries in opposition.
Those diplomats have done nothing to disrespect anyone or anything and if someone feels that they've been "disrespected" by the mere presence of someone who has never done anything to wrong them then maybe a little therapy is necessary.
During the last two Presidencies, political appointees have accounted for about 30% of ambassador posts. Not speaking the language has no influence whatsoever regarding the appointmeny of non-career diplomats. Caroline Kennedy, another Obama appointee has the same lack of proficiency in the Japanese language as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan as her predecessor, Howard Baker did under the "W" administration.
Nobody cares. There is an entire staff of career State Department personnel there, at each embassy who are well qualified to handle the day-to-day embassy affairs in the language of the host countries. The Ambassador is merely a figurehead and too many People have gotten their panties in a knot over some perceived "offense" which never occurred. They'll just have to grow up and face the fact that everyone doesn't believe in their "boogeymen".