U.N. Gay Rights Protection Resolution Passes, Hailed As 'Historic Moment"

[JayAtl]

GENEVA -- The United Nations issued its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people on Friday in a cautiously worded declaration hailed by supporters including the United States as a historic moment.

Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council narrowly voted in favor of the resolution put forward by South Africa, against strong opposition from African and Islamic countries.

"You just witnessed a historic moment at the Human Rights Council and within the U.N. system with a landmark resolution protecting human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people," U.S. ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe told reporters after the vote.

Couched in delicate diplomatic language, the resolution commissions a study of discrimination against gays and lesbians around the world, the findings of which will be discussed by the Geneva-based council at a later meeting.

The proposal went too far for many of the council's 47-member states, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Speaking on behalf of the powerful Organization of the Islamic Conference, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva said the resolution had "nothing to do with fundamental human rights."
"We are seriously concerned at the attempt to introduce to the United Nations some notions that have no legal foundation," Ambassador Zamir Akram said.

Nigeria claimed the proposal went against the wishes of most Africans. A diplomat from the northwest African state of Mauritania said it was "an attempt to replace the natural rights of a human being with an unnatural right."

The resolution passed with 23 votes in favor and 19 against, with 3 abstentions, including that of China. Backers included the United States, the European Union, Brazil and other

U.N. Gay Rights Protection Resolution Passes, Hailed As 'Historic Moment'

 

[PteX]

That is most disgusting how people still persecute gays around the world. Especially in the Middle East... I completely support gay rights, good for the UN doing something right for once.

 

[JayAtl]

Gay rights are human rights. Women were not allowed to vote , Minorities were not allowed to vote and still are not in many nations.. these are human rights and thats all it should be looked at. Religion was used as the reason for women not being allowed to vote in the US at one point and so was it used to have minorities not have these alienable rights.

You may disagree with such lifestyle but you must always see this as basic human rights and protection must be afforded to them, like it it is afforded to the rest of us.

 

[PteX]

Yes but logic is seldom followed by the illogical.

 

[Captain03]

i agree with the opposition in this. it's not like there weren't gay people before; they stopped transgressing for a reason. i guess in the end it all depends on your school of thought and your view on history.
as for the un; if islamic or eastern views are repeatedly ignored (palestine, kashmir, etc) then islamic/eastern countries should form their own union that supports or benefits their lifestyles.

 

[JayAtl]

i agree with the opposition in this. it's not like there weren't gay people before; they stopped transgressing for a reason. i guess in the end it all depends on your school of thought and your view on history.as for the un; if islamic or eastern views are repeatedly ignored (palestine, kashmir, etc) then islamic/eastern countries should form their own union that supports or benefits their lifestyles.

what do you mean by the highlighted quote above? " they stop transgressing? what does that even mean.

Your kid or family members falls sick - you go to the doctor who saves his/her life, giving them a second chance at life. Do you refuse that chance if the doctor's gay? And if don't - then how do you face that doctor that saved your nearest and love from death and tell him/her" now take a hike, jack, as far you getting even basic " human rights"

 

[PteX]

what do you mean by the highlighted quote above? " they stop transgressing? what does that even mean.

I think he means they stopped being gay...

 

[JayAtl]

I think he means they stopped being gay...

love for him to clarify that--- there is no stop being gay, they just hide it , pretend it. Like in some recent African country I forget , they have a " kill the gays bill" passed into law. where their Parliament essentially voted that if found to be gay and all gay populous - ALL will be hanged to death!

Found IT:
In Uganda, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, if enacted, would broaden the criminalisation of homosexuality by introducing the death penalty for people who have previous convictions, are HIV-positive, or engage in sexual acts with people of the same sex or with those under 18 years of age.

 

[JayAtl]

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[NmHqh2JbVo]

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I don't have a problem with this. I don't know other people.

 

[Captain03]

what do you mean by the highlighted quote above? " they stop transgressing? what does that even mean.

Your kid or family members falls sick - you go to the doctor who saves his/her life, giving them a second chance at life. Do you refuse that chance if the doctor's gay? And if don't - then how do you face that doctor that saved your nearest and love from death and tell him/her" now take a hike, jack, as far you getting even basic " human rights"

transgressing; look it up

and your blowing the subject way out of proportion. everyone is entitled to their doings and in islamic and most eastern views being gay is a sin/bad deed. and when people that commit a sin or bad deed are punished it's called justice. idk if you know but that's how the legal system works lol

 

[harpoon]

Until a cure is find, I support gay rights.

 

[NmHqh2JbVo]

Until a cure is find, I support gay rights.

I don't. And having no interest of find out how the hell you can treat a queer gene?

 

[JayAtl]

transgressing; look it up

and your blowing the subject way out of proportion. everyone is entitled to their doings and in Islamic and most eastern views being gay is a sin/bad deed. and when people that commit a sin or bad deed are punished it's called justice. idk if you know but that's how the legal system works lol

I do know what the word means but it made no sense re:your choice of vocabulary. What does "views" have to do with human rights? There were barbaric views towards women and still are in " eastern countries", does that make it right ? there are archaic laws based on religion -like blasphemy laws- does that make it right? These laws are in place today by backward countries today.

there were laws in the country you reside in(US) where you could have no Rights as a resident decades ago because you are a minority- would that be a-okay in your view if continued? and how am I blowing this out of proportion by giving my example of the doctor being gay?

 

[JayAtl]

Until a cure is find, I support gay rights.

cure ? to what? being gay is not a disease. Geez.