Civil rights are government granted and not ordained by God or Natural Law. The point is to force a choice between obedience to the elitists that run the state or obedience to God. What other countries do is of no concern.
It is of hypocrit concern to have us punished for exercising our conscience while Bill Gates and the government do trades with definite violators of said rights. The whole concept is a foreign influence barring the US from business altogether.