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Conservatives Expect U.N. Battle Over Homosexuality as a ‘Human Right’ to Begin in '09
CNSNews.com ^ | December 24, 2008 | Pete Winn

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho2008; bhoun; homosexualagenda; un

1 posted on 12/24/2008 5:00:37 AM PST by Man50D
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To: Man50D

Gort and Klatu will be arriving any day now.

This freaking planet needs to be CLEANSED!!!


2 posted on 12/24/2008 5:01:47 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Man50D
The United States refused to sign onto the measure, the only Western power to do so.

The last bastion of sanity has fallen.

3 posted on 12/24/2008 5:03:19 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light!)
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To: Man50D
Can the drive to make being brown-eyed a human right be far behind?

Wait...

4 posted on 12/24/2008 5:03:32 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

I think as long as they make it legal to marry your cousin...I don’t see a problem with this....(sarcasm off/)


5 posted on 12/24/2008 5:07:34 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Man50D

Muslims have a greater issue with Gays/homos/whatever than most peoples. Let’s see the UN convince them otherwise.


6 posted on 12/24/2008 5:08:03 AM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Man50D
The French/UK plan is just not acceptable to the Muslim World and will go nowhere.

"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

7 posted on 12/24/2008 5:10:25 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: wolfcreek

That is my reaction to this...lets see the UN try to shove this down Iran’s throat....


8 posted on 12/24/2008 5:14:20 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Man50D
More than 70 U.N. members currently outlaw homosexuality -- many of them Islamic nations.

I see the U.S. Left all of a sudden having an interest in The War On Terror.

9 posted on 12/24/2008 5:15:00 AM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Man50D

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.


10 posted on 12/24/2008 5:15:37 AM PST by zarodinu
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To: Man50D

The pharmaceutical companies are all for it.

World wide buggering and spreading HIV keeps the cash flowing for them.


11 posted on 12/24/2008 5:22:24 AM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself)
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To: Man50D
Since the UN is not an elected body, their decisions create no legally binding force on us.

Consequently, they can KMA.

12 posted on 12/24/2008 5:38:35 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am not a political, collective, administrative, public, corporate or legal entity)
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To: Man50D
Of course we all know that this is not about homosexuality at all...it is about the "civil rights" of the 21st century. For a long time, gays have tried to assert themselves into the civil rights act, demanding the same special rights afforded to blacks by that measure.

We've went through the "gay gene" thing, and all other aspects where they try to claim that they can't help being gay, therefore, deserve support from the rest of us. It didn't fly.

The granting of "human rights" - which they already have by being citizens - it only provides them leverage to sue everyone in sight everytime they don't get their way. This is an attempted end-run around the gay marriage issue, which recently went down in flames.

What it's going to come down to is, if everyone gets special rights, then NO one has special rights.

What they choose to do in privacy, I could care less...but they are doing everything in their power to flaut their lifestyle in our faces,and in the faces of our children...a prime target for them.

Bottom line...this is about the money and power - a staple for liberals - and has nothing to do with their ability to engage in perverted acts...they've been doing that for years.
13 posted on 12/24/2008 5:45:35 AM PST by FrankR (“Turtle up”, economically, for the duration of the 0bamanation.)
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To: Man50D

Do what you want, queers, just keep it out of our faces.


14 posted on 12/24/2008 6:22:16 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: goldstategop
I was thinking the same thing.

How's this for a dilemma. When the mussies go after the fags it will be hard to choose which side to root for.

15 posted on 12/24/2008 6:48:25 AM PST by mick
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To: Man50D

Homosexuality isn’t a “human right”. It’s a human sin.


16 posted on 12/24/2008 7:32:34 AM PST by Gritty (Once you put reality up for grabs, all kinds of pathologies suddenly become viable - Mark Steyn)
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To: zarodinu

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.


17 posted on 12/24/2008 9:04:48 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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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!

18 posted on 12/24/2008 3:05:22 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: zarodinu

Maybe in Russia... but here, it means indoctrination for our children. And, does Russia really care a rat’s rear about the UN anyway?


19 posted on 12/25/2008 5:54:36 AM PST by HondaCRF450
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To: Man50D
Just as in the Lawrence Supreme Court decision, in which homosexuals effectively construed the "right" to do what they want with each other in private the same as the right to redefine marriage, a failure to keep this from passing in the UN will put tremendous pressure on the US to institute all forms of totalitarian policies under the guise of "equal rights."
20 posted on 12/25/2008 12:09:47 PM PST by fwdude ("...a 'centrist' ... has few principles - and those are negotiable." - Don Feder)
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