As a Conservatives straight person with gay relatives, the UN as usual does not surprise me.
Red - Yes Green - No Yellow - Abstain Gray - Absent
Posted on 11/27/2010 9:56:21 AM PST by Eurotwit
NEW YORK, NY -- Last week, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted on a special resolution addressing extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions. The resolution affirms the duties of member countries to protect the right to life of all people with a special emphasis on a call to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds. The resolution highlights particular groups historically subject to executions including street children, human rights defenders, members of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities, and, for the past 10 years, the resolution has included sexual orientation as a basis on which some individuals are targeted for death.
ndment to strike sexual minorities from the resolution. The amendment was adopted with 79 votes in favor, 70 against, 17 abstentions and 26 absent.
A collection of notorious human rights violators voted for the amendment including Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, North Korea, Iran (didn't Ahmadinejad tell the world there were no gays in Iran?), Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.
Add to this Bahamas, Belize (where you get 10 years for being gay), Jamaica (10 years of hard labor), Grenada (10 years), Guyana (life sentence), Saint Kitts and Nevis (10 years), Saint Lucia (10 years), Saint Vincent (10 years), South Africa (Apartheid? What apartheid?), and Morocco (ruled by a gay monarch!). They are all on the list of nations that do not think execution of gays and lesbians is worthy of condemnation or investigation. (The full vote tally is published beneath this column.)
To its shame, Colombia was among the 16 nations who abstained.
Those against the amendment include every European nation present, all Scandinavian countries, India, Korea, most of Latin America, all of North America, and only one Middle Eastern nation: Israel. In most countries in the Middle East, it is a crime to be gay--in some, like Saudi Arabia, it is punishable by beheading and in others, like Iran, by hanging.
The UN has a remarkable track record of doing virtually nothing when presented with mass killings or genocide. "Never again!" was the cry after the holocaust. Since then, the world has witnessed a dozen more never agains with strong condemnation from the UN coming after the corpses pile up. A resolution of the sort that was voted on in the General Assembly is significant for its clarity of message: "It's okay to kill the gays."
The British government had pleaded: "The subject of this amendment--the need for prompt and thorough investigations of all killing, including those committed for ... sexual orientation--exists in this resolution simply because it is a continuing cause for concern."
Not a single African nation voted against the amendment. This is not surprising. Homosexuality is illegal in most of Africa. So acceptable is the notion of extra-judicial killings of gay men and women for their consensual private conduct that one of these countries, Uganda, is considering legislation making homosexuality (not the behavior, just being gay) punishable with death. The proposer of the bill, David Bahati, and the Ugandan "Minister for Ethics and Integrity," Nsaba Buturo, have vowed the bill will pass before parliament dissolves on May 12, 2011.
Uganda is not a Muslim nation. It is a Christian country. And it was American evangelical preachers in Uganda who fanned the flames of what could turn into mass executions in a continent that has seen genocidal murder occur numerous times in the last two decades on the basis of religious belief, ethnicity, and membership in a linguistic minority (Burundi, Darfur, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Zimbabwe...).
I had the opportunity to meet one of the courageous individuals in the struggle against this potential mass killing in Uganda. Her name is Kasha Jacqueline and she was one of the presenters at this year's Oslo Freedom Forum. Jacqueline was concerned for her safety when she made her way to Oslo given that she could have been the subject of retaliation upon her return.
Good to know.
Meanwhile, our own homosexuals give all these countries a pass while hating (unfortunately) gay-friendly USA and Israel.
Idiots.
I dare you to go on there and say, “Good grief(substitute a vial cuss word, or they won’t accept you), the conservatives were right again. We should just start electing them and doing what they tell us to do. We would be better off.”
“You won’t hear a word from the gay lobby. After all, at least these people hate America. That trumps the far lefts concern for their survival.”
Excellent point!! Well said..
Amazing that Guyana (S.America) would even vote given it is rumored that the President is Gay himself, as is the defense minister along with many other “Indian” leaders from this country. There is a crazy lady who daily protests outside the US Embassy Georgetown, a US citizen many beleive, whose insanity or protests started when she caught her high ranking government member husband with a male subordinate. Seems she may owe the US Govt for a plane fare or something, but for Guyana to slam gays is SHAM.
Could I have a comment from the peanut gallery please?
"Behind the Violence, Says Jane Alpert, Was Sex"--November 09, 1981--
"The leaders of the Weather Underground, she believes, followed a similar pattern of constantly shifting sexual alliances..."
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20080637,00.html
>> It is a Christian country. And it was American evangelical preachers in Uganda who fanned the flames ...
To be clear, Christ does not accept such horrors, so this is not really about Christianity. On the other hand, the same cannot be said for the other beliefs.
I’m not clear on your point. Please elucidate.
“I’d prefer to see all-out war between the libs/homosexuals and the UN/islam. “
Exactly, triangulate.
I can oppose sharia and the homosexual behaviors at the same time, no problem.
Bet this vote cuts down on tourism to those lovely, exotic places.
The sad thing is that “Christian” Uganda is being encouraged by US political figures, who may well be regarded kindly by a number of people here at FR. Uganda has even proposed punishment for family members and others who fail to report the gayness of those they know.
But as AIM has reported in a series of articles, this is deliberate distortion. Maddow and her media collaborators, such as Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post, have tried to obscure the fact that the government of Uganda is considering passage of the anti-homosexuality bill because of the growing concern by officials and religious leaders that foreign homosexuals and special interest groups are trying to spread homosexuality throughout the country and undermine the country’s return to traditional moral values. Campaigns and groups promoting the rights of “sexual minorities” have emerged in Uganda and other African countries, with funding from billionaire George Soros, a major financial supporter of “gay rights” in the U.S.
Uganda emphasizes abstinence and monogamy in its fight against AIDS, in contrast to the reckless “safe sex” approach popularized by “progressives” in the U.S. who want to avoid finding homosexuality itself to be a dangerous “lifestyle.” The U.S. Supreme Court legalized homosexual sodomy, or anal intercourse, in a controversial 2003 decision.
The Ugandan bill does provide for harsh measures against homosexual conduct, including the death penalty for such practices as pedophilia, facilitating homosexual activity, and deliberately spreading AIDS. As such, however, Ugandan Christian ministers see the legislation as a necessary and continuing part of Uganda’s successful anti-AIDS effort.
Acting at the behest of the homosexual lobby which supported him, President Barack Obama used his appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast to attack the Ugandan proposal as “odious.” Ugandan Pastor Martin Ssempa responded that he found Obama to be “obsessed” with spreading homosexuality and said that he regarded the Obama Administration’s support for legalized abortion to be “odious.”...
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff393.htm
The other side of the story. Cliff Kincaid goes into it in even more detail at link.
Only takes a quick glance at the chart map to see one could have predicted it pretty closely.
I find it instructive that the leftist gay crowd (IOW those with the “gay agenda”) don’t see the linkage between the American leftists they fervently support (meaning the Democrats) and the cultures and countries that so hate homosexuality that they would torture and execute them.
I tried to explain this to a liberal gay relative and he just got snippy and said he didn’t want to hear about it. I told him these people will turn on you and persecute you when it you are no longer needed.
He voted for Slick Willie and then complained afterwords. I point this out in 2008 and he still voted for Zero. Now he’s bitching again. I gave up, can’t talk to stoopid.
Got Demoralization?
Sexual deviance was always a central motivational pillar of the radical anti-American activism of the 60’s.
When Useful Idiots are led via the little head between their legs, the one on top of their shoulders goes along for the ride.
And today, 40 years later, the demoralized/brainwashed Useful Idiots, now sitting in their cubicles on Wall Street and elsewhere in the demoralized financial infrastructure, and still thinking with the little heads between their legs — have installed a protege of the Weather Underground in the White House.
No, making the behavior a crime of moral turpitude, a "Class C Misdemeanor" in Texas (a traffic ticket), would do it. It would provide a societal censure, as we once had, which would to a long way toward repudiating the homo-agenda, even if sodomy laws were seldom enforced.
Lawrence was the singular key to the elevation of homosexual conduct to a revered status.
“The Habitat Agenda”
http://www.removingunfreedoms.org/habitat_agenda.htm
http://www.comhabitat.org/document_1.aspx?id=1:29146&id=1:29109
“The U.N. Plan For Global Control: The Habitat II Agenda”
by Berit Kjos, June 1996
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/hab2.html
I am very well aware of the difference between gays as people and the gay agenda...
In Holland, gays are massively overrepresented as supporters of Geert Wilders. No wonder since they are being hunted by muslims like Buffy hunted vampires. Many gay couples also have high disposable incomes... Low tax conservatives right there :-P
But, it’s mainly the islam issue in Europe that has woken many of them up and realised their organisations are hopeless leftits who will follow their agenda no matter what.
In the end people are people. People are individuals. That goes, by the way, for muslims as well as gays...
That doesn’t mean that their “collective” agenda’s are not dangerous, but it bears keeping in mind at all times.
Cheers.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
He probably bats for the other team :-P
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