Take note of this absurdity:
On Monday, December 20th, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on whether to include protection for LGBT people in a crucial resolution on extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings. This resolution urges States to thoroughly and promptly investigate all killings committed for any discriminatory reason, even on the basis of sexual orientation.
It is the only UN resolution ever to include explicit reference to sexual orientation.
The resolution passed successfully for the past ten years. However in a UN committee just last month, a number of States proposed to remove the reference to sexual orientation.
Shockingly, this proposal to delete passed: 79 States (mostly Muslim and African) voted to remove the reference to sexual orientation, 70 supported its retention, and 43 States abstained or did not vote. This amounted to a serious defeat for LGBT rights at the UN.
Do these opponents of integrity and human rights think they lack a sexual orientation?
Will homophobes never learn!? Their ignorance and blind bigotry, in government and in the streets, is killing countless people--due to AIDS as well as bigotry--from Asia to Africa and beyond.
This insane prejudice against sexual diversity goes beyond all human reason and 'common good'--despite religious pretensions of most faiths toward neighborly love and compassion toward those who are afflicted.
Pray to some higher power that the opponents of the UN resolution will see some light, dim as it might be.
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