Posted on 03/07/2020 5:31:51 PM PST by ransomnote
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 6 (C-Fam) According to the UN’s special expert on freedom of religion, the fringe views of UN human rights bodies must take precedence over the mainstream beliefs of many leading world religions, when it comes to law and policy.
In his newly-launched annual report, Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, wrote about the intersection of religion and gender equality. He concluded that laws based in traditional morality, often religious in nature, should be repealed if they conflict with the opinions of human rights scholars and UN experts.
“States have an obligation to guarantee to everyone, including women, girls and LGBT+ people, an equal right to freedom of religion or belief,” he said, “including by creating an enabling environment where pluralist and progressive self-understandings can manifest.”
In order to enable these “self-understandings,” laws criminalizing abortion or various sexual behaviors would need to be overruled.
Shaheed noted that laws regarding abortion and homosexual behavior often arise from the application of religious teachings regarding the sanctity of life, the family, and sexual morality. While stopping short of directly calling on major world religions, such as Christianity or Islam, to change their doctrines, he attempted to differentiate between “patriarchal” and “gender equal” interpretations of religious teachings. The report cites the work of scholars who have worked to promote “progressive” reinterpretations of faith traditions, adding that the source of gender-based violence or discrimination is not necessarily religions, but, rather, certain interpretations of them, “which are not protected per se.”
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Right. The globalist humanist secular baby killers know what best for everyone.
Ayn Rand lives
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FUN
Bingo.
The report
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Religion/A_HRC_43_48_AdvanceUneditedVerison.docx
Past reports
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomReligion/Pages/Annual.aspx
Is UN Expert as oxymoronic as UN peacekeeper or liberal intellectual?
So the UN is taking a stand against female genital mutilation, and the wife-beating ruled permissible by some imams? I can get behind that.
I wonder if this will include muslims? That should be interesting.
These sick, twisted pedo-freaks aren’t even human to me.
ROFLOL!!!
The U.S. should kick the U.N. out of NY...and tell them to suck it.
Talk about an oxymoron!
I agree. Getting the UN out of the US would be a real political boast for Trump.
Some background on Ahmeed Shaheed from Wikipedia:
-On 5 May 2009, the Washington-based think-tank, Centre for the Study of Islam and Democracy conferred their annual Muslim Democrat of the Year Award to Shaheed.
I wonder what his position on Sharia Law is?
The UN needs to be destroyed.
Nah. They will be exempt. They are “special”, don’t ya know... And besides, everyone seems to be terrified of them.
I read the headline and thought it was from BAbylon Bee. Cheeky of them to think they can control the world’s religions. Begin with Iran and Afghanistan, please.
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