U.S. Urges U.N. to Push for Global Gay Rights
By Julio Severo
After the worst
mass shooting in U.S. history, the U.S. government appealed on
Monday for the United Nations to unite to push for lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) rights around the world.
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| Samantha Powers |
The U.N. Security Council, also on Monday, strongly
condemned the Orlando attack, for the first time mentioning the targeting of
people on the basis of sexual orientation, without condemning Islamic terrorism.
The Islamic attack gave the U.S. government the perfect
excuse to work to further criminalize moral and Christian stances against the
homosexual behavior in the Western nations and oppress nations like Russia,
which criminalize homosexual propaganda for children and teens, but do not criminalize
homosexual behavior and do not murder homosexuals. Specifically, the U.S.
government has never used the U.N. system to condemn Saudi Arabia, which bans
homosexual behavior and murders homosexuals.
The shooter who carried out mass shooting murder on
Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, had pledged allegiance to
the Islamic State. His act of terrorism stands as the deadliest such attack on
U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, when al Qaeda-trained, Saudi Muslim hijackers
crashed jetliners into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field
in Pennsylvania, killing some 3,000 people.
While the U.S., under conservative President George W. Bush,
used Iraq and other nations as a diversion for the Saudi Islamic attacks, today
the U.S. mainstream media use other scapegoats, especially Christians, as a
diversion for the Islamic attack.
“If we are united in our outrage by the killing of so
many – and we are – let us be equally united around the basic premise of
upholding the universal dignity of all persons regardless of who they love, not
just around condemning the terrorists who kill them,” Deputy U.S. Ambassador
David Pressman said in regard to the U.S. homosexual push in the U.N. after the
Orlando attack.
Despite intense efforts by the United States, the terms
“sexual orientation” and “gender identity” are part of only one General
Assembly resolution. Pressman complained about it, saying that every year “there
is a pitched fight over whether it is appropriate to include sexual orientation
in that protection.” “Sexual orientation” and “gender identity” inclusions are efforts
to push the gay agenda in the U.N., but these efforts fiercely opposed by pro-family
groups.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has long advocated
for gay rights but has faced opposition from Russia, African, Arab and Muslim
states. Under Pope John Paul 2, the Vatican was also a prominent opposition.
But the current pope does not seem to want to play a significant role in this
opposition.
In 2014, Ban announced the United Nations would
recognize all same-sex “marriages” of its staff. Russia unsuccessfully tried to
overturn the move last year, with many governments supporting Russia.
In his pro-homosexuality effort, Ban has received
support from the “Core LGBT Group,” a group of eleven countries committed to
“concerted action” for LGBT rights. The “Core LGBT Group,” led by the U.S., is
composed by the European Union, Israel and Brazil. (Brazil under Marxist
President Dilma Rousseff was a loyal supporter of all homosexual and abortion
causes championed by the Obama administration in the U.N.)
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and U.N. envoys from 16
countries gathered at a New York landmark gay bar Thursday to galvanize global
efforts to advance LGBT rights after the Orlando attack on a gay nightclub.
The senior diplomats mostly from Europe and Latin
America met to discuss new initiatives to promote homosexual rights around the
world.
“We couldn’t think of a more symbolic place after the
monstrous attack in Orlando to come than this one,” Power said at the Stonewall
Inn, considered the birthplace of the American homosexualist movement.
Dutch Ambassador Karel van Oosterom, a member of the Core
LGBT Group, called for a “worldwide global action to address this,” and said “the
Core Group will be instrumental to do that.”
With the Islamic terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in
Orlando, the U.S. is renewing its push for the gay agenda in the U.N. without
condemning Islam or Islamic terrorism.
With
information from Reuters and Yahoo News.
Portuguese
version of this article: EUA
pressionam ONU para exigir direitos gays no mundo inteiro
Source: Last Days Watchman
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