Posted on 02/04/2017 3:07:49 PM PST by ebb tide
The new UN expert on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues outlined a strategy for his three-year term before dozens of supportive UN bureaucrats, delegates, and activists in a meeting last week.
Vitit Muntarbhorn, the newly appointed UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, spoke of the Sustainable Development Goals and the work of UN agencies to further the goals as a “good entry point for us.”
The Thai law professor and homosexual activist also described health, education, and religion as “soft entry points” and cautioned that “sexual orientation and gender identity” are not closed categories, promising to ensure no group is overlooked.
Only supportive states attended the consultation. Others who opposed the creation of the post did not want to legitimize his work by attending the event.
Supportive UN agencies huddled in a tightly packed UN meeting room to describe their ongoing efforts to promote LGBT rights. Even though the UN post barely survived General Assembly scrutiny in December, the feeling of triumph was palpable. Even UN Habitat, which has held out against the LGBT agenda thus far, asked guidance on how to integrate LGBT rights in urban development.
Muntarbhorn explained that UN agencies would be exponentially more influential because of their resources.
He described education as an entry point for children to be “born and bred from a young age” with the right attitudes. Specifically he mentioned anti-bullying campaigns. Additionally on the health front, he suggested that the medical community be enlisted to condemn any form of therapy designed to help individuals cope with or change unwanted same-sex attraction.
A representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called for states to “provide LGBT couples and children with legal recognition of their family entity.” Muntarbhorn sounded a cautious note without excluding this entirely.
“I am not jumping into the right to marry as a first issue for this mandate even though it is an important issue,” he said. “The first issue is we are anti-crime, anti-killing, anti-torture,” he said, stressing a more limited reading of what constitutes “discrimination.” He also admitted to holding an open definition of family.
When confronted about the clash between LGBT rights and religious freedom by Henk Jan van Schothorst of the Transatlantic Christian Council, Muntarbhorn’s answers were categorical.
“There are some absolute rights,” he said, “but there are some that are not absolute.” He went on to explain that “freedom of expression and expression of religion” are not absolute rights and that they could be curtailed if necessary.
While calling for compromise, respect, and dialogue, he appeared irritated.
“We can agree or disagree on whether the family should be big or smaller, which is not totally settled” he said—perhaps a nod to population control—but emphasized that “whatever the differences, you can’t kill people. I’m sorry about that.”
Muntarbhorn described a desire to engage with the “heart of religion without the mythology overriding the heart of the religion.” He cited examples of traditions that welcomed homosexuality and transgenderism and denounced sodomy laws as a colonial imposition.
I would like to “open the door to a humane understanding and interpretation (of religion), conversant and complimentary with human rights,” he said, welcoming the invitation of the UN Population Fund to attend events with religious groups that support abortion and LGBT rights.
Get.Us.Out.
It's not. Any more than "climate change" treaties are. More libtard crap that we should NOT be involved with.
U.S. OUT OF THE U.N.!! U.N. OUT OF THE U.S.!!! Let them peddle their self destructive crap policies elsewhere. They've already surrendered and destroyed their own countries. Why give them an in to do that to us?
Well, in terms of the UN - there is no religious freedom anywhere in the world, except the US.
“America should stop worrying about things like this. As long as other Nations are not threatening or invading their neighbors, interfering with international commerce, or supporting terrorist organizations that operate internationally - who cares?”
Muslims are doing those things though.
Freedom of religion is a human right witht he following conditions
1. Freedom to Leave a Religion is an Absolute non-negotiable
human right
2. Freedom to Join a Religion is an Absolute non-negotiable human right
3. An Organization that claims to be a Religion but punishes people who wish to leave with private force or use of government force , is not a religion it is a CULT, this too is non-negotiable.
( if the UN adopted these standards in regards to Religious freedom , there would be at least 57 fewer countries in the UN )
“Religious freedom is ‘not absolute,’” but I have a feeling this fellow does believe that the power of the UN is ‘absolute.’
not if we curtail you first, un jackwagon scum.
So called lgbt rights can be curtailed if necessary.
Good! So let's curtail Satanism, Islam and the religion Ann Coulter has identified as Liberalism. All other major religions OK for now.
His focus was all wrong as far as being able to believe/preach/conduct one's business w/o actually hurting others (except for their snow-flaky feelings).
Let me guess: The GerBiLs will tell us when it’s “necessary.”
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