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UN expert: Anti-gay sex laws wane; rights 'crucible' endures
Associated Press ^ | Oct 27, 2017 6:56 PM EDT | Jennifer Peltz

Posted on 10/27/2017 5:07:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Laws criminalizing consensual gay sex have been scrapped in about 25 countries in the last 20 years, but more than 70 nations still have such prohibitions, a U.N. expert said Friday in a first-of-its-kind report at the General Assembly.

And in many places around the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people live in “a crucible of egregious violations” of human rights, enduring violence and discrimination, said Vitit Muntarbhorn, the U.N.’s first-ever independent expert investigating violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation. The world body’s Human Rights Council appointed him last year, in a move that met significant opposition amid deep international divisions on gay rights.

Addressing a U.N. General Assembly committee for the first time Friday, Muntarbhorn noted “a global trend toward decriminalization of consensual same-sex relations.” At least five countries — Belize, Lesotho, Mozambique, Palau and Seychelles — have scrubbed such laws in the last five years. “The gaps are, however, ubiquitous,” Muntarbhorn added. […]

Muntarbhorn’s job became a flashpoint last year, when African nations tried to stop his work. They questioned its legal basis and said the U.N. was delving into national matters and prioritizing LGBT issues over discrimination based on race or religion. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: comeforyourchildren; homofascism; homosexualagenda; manboylove; muntarbhorn; sodomandgomorrah; un; unsexscandals
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1 posted on 10/27/2017 5:07:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

2 posted on 10/27/2017 5:14:43 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

Are they making silly resolutions condemning muslim nations for still treating women like property? No?


3 posted on 10/27/2017 5:23:33 PM PDT by wastedyears ("Mr President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Poofters in sin arise
And put your armor on
Strong in the strength that Hell provides
To those unknown above
Strong in the Prince of the Air
And in his deceptions
Who in the strength of themselves do trust
Will failing strength must fall

Stand then in thos great sin
With pride your watchword
And take to arm you for the fight
Political correctness
That having all grace resisted
And all your opportunities passed
Ye will face horrors you now deny
And stand under judgment at last

Leave no unguarded place
No place for grace to find
Celebrate every perversion, every vice
And deny your only hope
From pride to pride go on
Resist those who pray for you
Tread down all that seeks to call you back
And have your way at last


4 posted on 10/27/2017 5:26:32 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Olog-hai
Laws criminalizing consensual gay sex have been scrapped in about 25 countries in the last 20 years, but more than 70 nations still have such prohibitions

70 nations still retain common sense.

5 posted on 10/27/2017 5:31:09 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Olog-hai

Ah, progress! And along with this a wonderful 82% of sexually transmitted diseases to add to the zest of it all.


6 posted on 10/27/2017 5:43:36 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: ealgeone

Based on their widespread obsession with ‘twinks’ and boys clearly under 18 as well as dominant/submissive power relationships it seems consent is rather thin in the ground.


7 posted on 10/27/2017 5:54:13 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Olog-hai

We need to reinstitute the laws at the founding against sodomites and their filthy behavior — a capital crime.


8 posted on 10/27/2017 8:47:57 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Chainmail

And along with the marginalization of marriage and the responsible family.


9 posted on 10/27/2017 10:38:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nonsporting

The self-serving judiciary is the problem. It continuously overrules the will of the citizens ultimately creating an environment of moral apathy. And its primary target was/is the family facilitating the killing of nascent life and the destruction of marriage.


10 posted on 10/27/2017 10:47:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nonsporting
Think it through - a government that can kill you for aberrant sex can decide that sex can only be consummated in the missionary position between the hours of 9:30 PM and 10:30 PM on Saturdays. It can declare that an "touching of certain areas" by other than the hands is illegal too.

One of the reasons the Constitution doesn't have any of the dang "Noble Cause" clauses that so many narrow thinkers seem to think it should....

11 posted on 10/28/2017 3:58:38 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

The Regimes you speak of don’t bother with such.


12 posted on 10/28/2017 4:51:05 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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The Regimes you speak of don’t bother with such.

They never do until they do....Wasn't long ago that it was illegal to have pre-marital sex or even use birth control in Virginia....

13 posted on 10/28/2017 6:38:33 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Olog-hai

No matter how many liberals spin it fag practice is a filthy way to have sex


14 posted on 10/28/2017 7:14:55 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: Olog-hai

No matter how many liberals spin it fag practice is a filthy way to have sex


15 posted on 10/28/2017 7:15:02 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: trebb
Think it through - a government that can kill you for aberrant sex can decide that sex can only be consummated in the missionary position...

The founders had no problem with capital punishment for sodomite offenders.

Sodomite offenses are not in the same class as God honored relations between husbands and wives. (The marriage bed is undefiled).

I'm also all for reinstituting the death penalty for adultery. We wink at God's created *ORDER* and instead celebrate disorder. When we reap the inevitable consequences, we wonder why and refuse to accept the only workable corrections given by God himself (Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:27-32).

16 posted on 10/28/2017 8:59:17 AM PDT by nonsporting
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Well, the sex laws are ineffective unless people do it in public where you can see them. In other words, people not having enough common sense to do it in the bedroom. Plus there are certain behaviors that account for a majority of STD spreading too.


17 posted on 10/28/2017 9:04:38 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: nonsporting

Thomas Jefferson argued for cutting the privates off an offender instead of death.


18 posted on 10/28/2017 9:20:50 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009
Thomas Jefferson argued for cutting the privates off an offender instead of death.

Not a biblical solution. It shows men wanting to back track on God's chosen punishment. (i.e. "We know better")

19 posted on 10/28/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT by nonsporting
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The point was to avoid public approval, which was rampant and enforced by kingdoms at the time.


20 posted on 10/28/2017 10:05:07 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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