While I'm glad that the US, Iran, Cuban, Sudan and Zimbabwe can all find something to agree on, this isn't the first area I would pick.
Human rights organizations and the co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus protested on Thursday a decision by the Bush administration to back a measure introduced by Iran denying two gay rights groups a voice at the United Nations.
In a vote Monday, the United States supported Iran's recommendation to deny consultative status at the United Nations' Economic and Social Council to the Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians and the International Lesbian and Gay Association, based in Belgium.
Nearly 3,000 nongovernmental organizations have such status, which enables them to distribute documents to meetings of the council.
Among countries with which the United States sided were Cuba, Sudan and Zimbabwe, nations the State Department has cited in annual reports for their harsh treatment of homosexuals.
Sounds pretty unfair and weasely doesn't it? A bit further down the article, we find this little gem:
Mark P. Lagon, a deputy assistant secretary of state, said in an interview that the vote did not stem from "being against gay rights groups" but was based on "the controversial history of the International Lesbian and Gay Association — an affiliate of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, was associated with it in the past and openly condoned pedophilia."
While I have no idea if this reason/excuse is in fact valid, it does cast things in a different light doesn't it?
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You just know, though, that if the US hadn't sided with Iran, the headline would've read, "Bush Gives Thumbs-Up to Pedophilia."
i first heard of NAMBLA while watching an episode of southpark (they approached cartman after he, feeling wiser-than-his-years and more mature than his friends, typed in an internet chatroom "i'm a lonely boy looking for the friendship of an older man"). i was dumbstruck when i found out it's a real thing.
hmmm, let's not confuse all gay men with child abuse.. and i'd like to know more about the extent of these links, and if/when/how they were terminated
well, then why don't you google NAMBLA...
Karin
go google it...wow...if you just type in NAMBLA you'd be surprised yjust how many hits you get!
Karin
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