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Posted on 11/27/2015 7:37:01 PM PST by markomalley
A paragraph about sex education in a resolution on the rights of children stalled debate in the General Assembly on Tuesday and forced a vote on the resolution, which has traditionally been adopted consensually.
Europeans and Latin Americans sponsoring the resolution could not be swayed, and insisted throughout the weeks leading up to the vote that the resolution on children must contain a specific prescription for “comprehensive evidence-based education on human sexuality,” and no alternative would satisfy them.
Delegations implored the sponsors of the resolution to show “sensitivity” and to recognize the lack of consensus to no avail as they tried to avert the vote altogether.
The preferred terminology of the sponsors has been controversial at the General Assembly for over a decade, but has become even more controversial since the World Health Organization published controversial guidelines for Europe in 2010 it with an aggressive model of comprehensive sexuality education that exposes children to masturbation, homosexuality, gender identity, and other controversial issues from primary school, and even earlier.
The resolution did not just use the controversial term. It went further, ostensibly justifying the inclusion of the term “in order to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages.”
A marathon 4-hour voting process, involving multiple amendments and discussions about procedural issues, exposed deep fault lines separating socially conservative countries from the sponsors of the resolution.
The African Group said changing the paragraph with the controversial language was a matter of “principle” and African countries originally sponsoring the resolution withdrew their sponsorship.
Egypt did not only say that comprehensive sexuality education violated their laws, but the UN Charter and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, by threatening the “purity” of children and their “psychological and psychical balance.” Sudan echoed these comments from Egypt and described the issue was “rootless.”
Nigeria objected to an “agenda thrust upon us at every turn” with the intent to “undermine the foundations of our societies and ultimately the family structure.” They spoke of the primary role of the family in the education of children and the need to “sustain their innocence.”
Even India, which normally does not engage in thorny social debates internationally, felt compelled to speak against the sponsors of the resolution.
“The UN should not be forum for propaganda on which there is no consensus,” the Indian delegate said, adding that the resolution went “overboard” because of the hegemonic aspirations implied in the language about modifying societies and cultures through sex education.
Other delegations, including Russia, complained about the absence of discussion on many aspects of education, and the relentless focus on the narrow issue of sex education.
The vote on an amendment to change the offensive term with the more doctrinally neutral terminology “age-appropriate sex education,” was close. 67 countries voted in favor of the amendment, 84 countries voted against it, with 41 countries abstaining or not casting a vote at all.
The resolution overall passed comfortably by 128 votes, but 44 countries abstained, and over 20 countries did not cast a vote at all. Even those voting in favor of the resolution, complained that the sponsors should have accepted the amendments proposed.
The debate on sex education at the UN comes as developed countries, where children have access to information about sex and are widely taught sex education in schools, are experiencing a dramatic increase in sexually transmitted diseases in teenage and college-age populations. In the United States alone the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 10 million new sexually transmitted infections occur each year among those aged 15-24.
It is increasingly difficult to estimate the trajectory that the social debates at the UN are taking. Undoubtedly, the vote on the resolution on the rights of the child signals that the debate is here to stay.
Social conservatives should be glad that the controversial terminology that led to the vote on the child resolution was kept out of a resolution on the “girl child” last week. Countries promoting LGBT rights have also failed to include a reference to “sexual orientation and gender identity” in any new resolutions.
Similarly, “reproductive rights” were kept out of a resolution on youth policies this week despite insistence from powerful donor countries. This is especially significant in light of the new UN development goals, and attempts to use them to undermine parental authority in children’s decisions about sexuality.
At the same time, the only annual resolution on the family has been shelved because of countries that want to redefine the family to give international recognition to same-sex couples. The same countries block the consideration of the role of the family altogether in any resolution because they don’t want to do so unless countries agree to redefine the family.
Pay your parking tickets and leave this country
Perverts demanding that children be psychologically prepared for grooming.
and go where? It’s as messed up or worse everywhere else.
Kick these bastards OUT of here and STOP FUNDING THESE MORONS!!! Methinks the Council on Foreign Relations is behind their survival, along with the Bilderbergers and the crony capitalists.
What an absolutely HORRID article!! The author should be fired, and NEVER rehired by anybody because he absolutely cannot write a single, comprehensible sentence.
There is absolutely NO information contained within the article which makes it a total waste of ink, and human energy in even attempting to read it.
I beg of you posters, PLEASE don’t EVER post idiocy from non-writers. They don’t deserve pay-checks, because they can’t perform the functions for which they are paid, even if they do work for (ehem) businesses which promote ideologies that most of us do approve of.
Now, is there a similar article which does report on the point this article fails to make that’s actually readable?
As long as you have majority “representation” in the UN from some distinctly un-democratic countries, there will NEVER be anything like an honest vote coming out on any issue put before them.
That is, when they even deign to hear an issue.
Unless, of course, they can use the issue to club either or both the United States and Israel over the head as being “against” some vague or imagined “human right”.
Nowhere does the UN ever claim any divine inspiration from a Creator, as that would be “offensive” to certain factions that make up what has become the majority of the countries included in the UN roster of members.
Some, in fact, may not even be regarded as a “country”, as they are mostly a hodgepodge of tribes and strongmen bandit gangs.
So they've learned nothing, done nothing in 60 years.
Forget the tickets, just go back where they came from, we'll turn the building into low rent apartments, won't be much of a change in the tenants.
The perverts always want access to children younger and younger. This is what homosexuals do.. glad to see quite a few countries saying no. If only ours would..
BTTT
Thank you, thank you dear PrairieLady2.
I re-read the article twice because I couldn't follow parts of it, and figured it must be me because it's late here on the Right Coast.
So it -might- still be me, but at least I'm not alone! :-)
Ping
That’s what it sounds like.
From article: “The UN should not be forum for propaganda on which there is no consensus,†the Indian delegate said, adding that the resolution went “overboard†because of the hegemonic aspirations implied in the language about modifying societies and cultures through sex education.
Modifying societies and countries through sex education? They just spelled out their desires for sex with children.
Wow. When Sudan is a voice of reason...
Good!
Thanks! ;-)
"Jihad is Contained!
Climate Change is the only Worldwide Threat!
That, and Backtracking
On Gay and Abortion Rights!"
Google Yogyakarta Principles.
I think that’s what’s being discussed. Originally drawn up in Indonesia a few years ago, by a handful of self proclaimed intellectuals.
Obama & friends have been trying to force adoption of the Yogyakarta Principles by the UN ever since first drafted, but have failed miserably.
At the same time, Obama has ramrodded this down American throats by insisting that LGBT rights and the sexualization of children by the state, in contravention of parental rights, somehow equates to “human rights” as defined by the UN, and by falsely insinuating that the UN General Assembly is already on board with this.
The issue here is that Europe and the Americas are pushing an LGBT agenda and child sexuality in the UN, while a significant number of less-developed countries are resisting the agenda, which is correctly understood to be a pedophile agenda. Russia and many other nations are resisting the
deconstruction of natural male-female roles, and the corollary reconstruction of society to suit a queer agenda.
Not hard to understand at all, IMO.
The article is saying that most member nations in the UN are on our side.
The paragraph beginning “Nigeria objected...” sums it up nicely.
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