Posted on 12/24/2008 5:00:37 AM PST by Man50D
France fired the opening salvo last week in a battle at the United Nations over making homosexuality a “human right.”
The European nation tried but failed to get the U.N. to approve a non-binding resolution decriminalizing homosexuality worldwide. The United States refused to sign onto the measure, the only Western power to do so.
"It's disappointing," said Rama Yade, France's human rights minister, of the U.S. position.
But former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer told CNSNews.com that he is very glad the U.S. held firm.
“The United Nations really has no business in telling anybody how they ought to deal with homosexual conduct,” Bauer, president of American Values, told CNSNews.com.
France, which heads the European Union (EU) until the end of the year, garnered support from only 66 of the U.N.'s 192 member countries. But all of the EU countries voted for the resolution.
Conservative U.N. analyst Thomas Jacobson said he expects France will try again soon.
“I would fully expect that France and the European Union will push for ‘LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) rights’ and ‘gender-identity rights’ and collaborate heavily with the Obama administration, beginning in the first quarter of 2009,” Jacobson, who works for the conservative Focus on the Family, told CNSNews.com
He said France was “greatly emboldened” by the U.S. election of Barack Obama as president. adding, "They know they are going to have a partner to work with at the U.N.”.
Obama, Jacobson said, has been very clear in his support of the homosexual activist agenda -- but has been selective about where he discusses his support.
As a candidate, for instance, Obama told members of the Alice B. Toklas Gay and Lesbian Democratic Club that he would work to overturn laws restricting marriage to one man and one woman.
“As soon as the Obama administration has all of its people in place, this will be one of their primary initiatives. You can bet that they have taken great note of what France was doing,” Jacobson added.
Jacobson said that, ironically, the French and British – and other industrialized European nations – are busy promoting a new form of “imperialism” – a cultural imperialism to force a radical pro-abortion, pro-homosexual agenda on the world.
“This is a form of imperialism that is coming out of a very liberal mindset in Europe – and increasingly in the U.S -- to force smaller, less powerful countries to conform to their will in their internal policies in matters of sexuality," he said.
More than 70 U.N. members currently outlaw homosexuality -- many of them Islamic nations.
“What’s really going to make the huge difference is if the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) countries and the other developing countries, especially from Africa – and we would hope from Latin America -- will stand their moral ground against this,” Jacobson added.
Bauer, meanwhile, said the struggle that is coming at the United Nations is a sign of the times: countries who owe their entire existence to Western civilization and to Judeo-Christian values are working to undermine it.
“Some of these countries seem to think that the best thing they can contribute to the world – especially world health – is to undermine the teachings of Judeo-Christian civilization, and attempt to pressure other countries to go down the same road they are going down,” he said.
Homosexuality is not a human right, Bauer said.
“The notion that this is somehow an area that is comparable -- or in any way can be compared to -- religious liberty or the freedom of speech or the right to assemble, or the he right to vote, is just absurd,” he added.
Bauer said it is ironic that the United Nations is spending its time on homosexuality, while real persecutions are taking place.
Gort and Klatu will be arriving any day now.
This freaking planet needs to be CLEANSED!!!
The last bastion of sanity has fallen.
Wait...
I think as long as they make it legal to marry your cousin...I don’t see a problem with this....(sarcasm off/)
Muslims have a greater issue with Gays/homos/whatever than most peoples. Let’s see the UN convince them otherwise.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That is my reaction to this...lets see the UN try to shove this down Iran’s throat....
I see the U.S. Left all of a sudden having an interest in The War On Terror.
I have no problem with the basic statement that people shouldn’t be executed and prosecuted because of their sexuality. We are talking about the UN here, its a proclamation not binding law. I think that establishing the idea that maybe people shouldn’t get stoned to death for something they do in private, will give a clue to all these Islamist lunatics that maybe Jews and Christians should be allowed to live in peace.
In Russia the authorities used denial of permit, riot police with attack dogs, and government thugs in plain clothes to crush and disperse a gay pride parade. Now the exact same tactics are used to crush any other demonstration. A country that thinks certain people can be stripped of basic rights, will inevitably use the same process to take away the rights of ethnic, religious, and political minorities.
The pharmaceutical companies are all for it.
World wide buggering and spreading HIV keeps the cash flowing for them.
Consequently, they can KMA.
Do what you want, queers, just keep it out of our faces.
How's this for a dilemma. When the mussies go after the fags it will be hard to choose which side to root for.
Homosexuality isn’t a “human right”. It’s a human sin.
I think there is a greater need for a UN declaration against Islamic death sentences for muslims who convert away from Islam, for non-muslims caught with religious books in Saudi Arabia, and for non-muslims who’d dare enter the segregated cities of Mecca and Medina.
“homosexuality as a human right” means indoctrinating kids in school and requiring legalization of same sex marriage.
Big leap from death sentences. Those same countries that execute homosexuals execute non-muslims just for not being muslims.
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As usual, the UN gets it completely wrong, since it is nothing but den of vipers in all respects.
Comment #16 gets it right!
Maybe in Russia... but here, it means indoctrination for our children. And, does Russia really care a rat’s rear about the UN anyway?
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