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.
That is disgusting...
For some hatred of gay people goes to an extent that certainly cannot be described as Christian. imho.
I am a European, so my views about current politics are dominated by the muslim agenda, not the gay one. Though I believe the gay/feminist have weakened the west making it possible for the muslims to do their move. Though to solve it. I think getting sensible gay people onboard can be a good asset.
Google Bruce Bawer for instance.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Yeah, well, as a group they haven't woken up here, unfortunately. If you will pardon the terminology, responsible gay citizens are getting screwed by the political gay movement. And most still haven't figured it out.
As I pointed out a long time ago, to a gay relative, the militant gay organizations (ACT Up) have fostered the spread of a AIDS and are responsible for more deaths than any of the straw men they blame for same. Talk about pissing into the wind. He still claims Reagan wanted to kill all homosexuals. How do you reason with that?
Regarding Reagan. The issue is that it took 3 years for Surgeon General Coop to pursuade Reagan of the importance of issuing a national alert to every household about the dangers of this new disease. It wasn’t until the death of Rock Hudson, whom I guess he knew, that Coop was able to do what could have saved thousands of lives if it had been done earlier. I remember the day I received it in the mail and thought, well, it’s about time. I guy I knew who knew I was medically literate and following this issue asked me if I thought it was safe for him to date a guy who was HIV positive, since the guy had a letter from his Doctor saying he did NOT have AIDS. I said, “are you (and especially this criminally irresponsible doctor) crazy? HIV IS THE DISEASE, AIDS is merely the symptom.
I don't know that it would have made much difference at that point. That's assuming anyone would have followed the advice. Gay men certainly didn't. The gay political organizations spent their money and political capital trying to hide the facts and convince the country that it was a heterosexual disease and would be an epidemic in the hetero population. They (and their media sycophants) tried to politically destroy anyone that spoke the truth about AIDS.
That's where this whole BS about "HIV positive wasn't really AIDS" came to be.
Point being? No one listened. HUNDREDS of thousands of lives would have been saved if the gay organizations had actually cared enough to educate gay men and not tried to blame the disease on Reagan and Republicans while insisting it was primarily a hetero disease. These people were sacrificed on the alter of liberalism, plain and simple. Same mindset the left has about profiling in fighting terrorism.
30 years later we still have San Francisco liberals encouraging the practices that spread AIDS by allowing the gay bath houses. We still have the left pushing for gay blood donation.
Liberals are responsible for many, many thousands more AIDS deaths that could theoretically been saved by anything the Reagan Administration might have done. They hated Reagan, they would not have cooperated with anything that helped AIDS victims if it came from him.
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