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Subject: [CCNN] U.N. resolution to globalize 'gay' rights
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> U.N. resolution to globalize 'gay' rights
> Homosexual groups lobbying nations to pass landmark measure
>
> Posted: February 4, 2004
> 1:00 a.m. Eastern
>
> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36916
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> © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
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> Homosexual-rights groups are mobilizing support for a landmark United
> Nations resolution that would classify abuse on the basis of sexual
> orientation as a human rights violation.
>
> Last year, when the resolution first was introduced to the U.N. Human
> Rights Commission, the San Francisco-based International Gay and
> Lesbian Human Rights Commission, or IGLHRC, called it "a historic
> opportunity to advance [homosexual] issues in international
> human-rights law."
>
> The IGLHRC said the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Resolution on
> Sexual Orientation and Human Rights is the "first one in the history of
> the United Nations that specifically, and unambiguously, spells out
> that abuses on the basis of sexual orientation are human rights
> violations."
>
> The Human Rights Commission is scheduled to meet March 15 to April 25
> in Geneva, Switzerland.
>
> "This resolution would be the first United Nations Commission on Human
> Rights resolution to connect the full range of human rights to sexual
> orientation, and to condemn discrimination on its basis," said Paula
> Ettelbrick, IGLHRC's executive director said.
>
> IGLHRC called last April's introduction of the resolution by Brazil
> "unexpected."
>
> After prolonged debate, the 53-member commission, chaired by Libya,
> voted to postpone further discussion on the resolution to this year's
> session.
>
> At the 2003 session, Pakistan distributed a memo to commission members
> on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference which stated
> the "resolution directly contradicts the tenets of Islam and other
> religions," and its approval would be "a direct insult to the 1.2
> billion Muslims around the world."
>
> Last year's resolution, according to the IGLHRC, had the support of
> Canada, New Zealand and several European Union countries.
>
> This year, key countries the homosexual-rights groups are urged to
> lobby include South Africa, India, Costa Rica and the United States.
>
> Susana Fried, IGLHRC program director, says the resolution is "a key
> building block in the global understanding of human rights."
>
> "It could be invoked to call on states to end all discrimination based
> on sexual orientation in economic and social rights, such as access to
> health, education and housing," she said.
>
> The resolution, IGLHRC asserted, also would "encourage governments to
> take a more active role to prevent discrimination and violence based on
> sexual orientation such as murder, torture and arbitrary arrest and
> detention. It would help to ensure the protection of victims and help
> bring perpetrators of violence against sexual minorities to justice."
>
> The group also said it would "provide activists with another tool to
> hold states accountable to respect, protect and fulfill the human
> rights of LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered] people."
>
> However, some opponents contend the remedy proposed by the resolution
> will have worse societal implications than the alleged disease,
> "homophobia."
>
> "It is highly likely that gay-rights advocates will use this
> resolution, if it passes, to advance their agenda to legalize gay
> marriage and to create hate-crimes legislation," contended A. Scott
> Loveless, associate professor of law at the World Family Policy Center
> at Brigham Young University.
>
> "In their quest to legitimize homosexuality, many of these countries
> have actually limited some of our most fundamental freedoms, including
> freedom of speech," Loveless said.
>
> In Canada, provincial human-rights commissions already have penalized
> people for discrimination based on sexual orientation. A court in
> Saskatchewan upheld a 2001 ruling that fined a man for submitting a
> newspaper ad containing citations of four Bible verses that address
> homosexuality. Three years ago, the Ontario Human Rights Commission
> penalized printer Scott Brockie $5,000 for refusing to print letterhead
> for a homosexual advocacy group. Brockie argued that his Christian
> beliefs compelled him to reject the group's request.
>
> Last year, Peoria, Ill., traditionally seen as America's bellwether
> town, joined a growing list of Illinois cities banning discrimination
> based on sexual orientation. The city council voted 8-3 Tuesday to
> amend its human-rights ordinance to protect homosexuals against
> discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations.
> Similar ordinances have been adopted in Bloomington, Champaign,
> Decatur, Normal and Springfield.
>
> Also last year, the California state Assembly approved a bill outlawing
> discrimination against job applicants and renters based on their
> "perceived gender." The measure broadened California's housing and
> employment laws to cover transsexuals, transvestites and others who do
> not fit traditional male or female "stereotypes."
>
> 'Changing attitudes and behavior '
>
> The draft resolution presented last year by Brazil, titled, "Human
> Rights and Sexual Orientation," began by appealing to a number of
> international human rights conventions. It concludes with:
>
> "Reaffirming that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms the
> principle of the inadmissibility of discrimination and proclaims that
> all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that
> everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein
> without distinction of any kind,
>
> "Affirming that human rights education is a key to changing attitudes
> and behavior and to promoting respect for diversity in societies, [the
> Human Rights Commission],
>
> "1. Expresses deep concern at the occurrence of violations of human
> rights in the world against persons on the grounds of their sexual
> orientation;
>
> "2. Stresses that human rights and fundamental freedoms are the
> birthright of all human beings, that the universal nature of these
> rights and freedoms is beyond question and that the enjoyment of such
> rights and freedoms should not be hindered in any way on the grounds of
> sexual orientation;
>
> "3. Calls upon all States to promote and protect the human rights of
> all persons regardless of their sexual orientation;
>
> "4. Notes the attention given to human rights violations on the grounds
> of sexual orientation by the special procedures in their reports to the
> Commission on Human Rights, as well as by the treaty monitoring bodies,
> and encourages all special procedures of the Commission, within their
> mandates, to give due attention to the subject;
>
> "5. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
> pay due attention to the violation of human rights on the grounds of
> sexual orientation;
>
> "6. Decides to continue consideration of the matter at its sixtieth
> session under the same agenda item."
>
>
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