U.S. refuses to sign UN resolution decriminalizing homosexuality

[Natasha]

U.S. refuses to sign UN resolution decriminalizing homosexuality

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8719
Pam Spaulding
Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 09:00:00 AM EST

This stance by the United States is stunning on several levels, and shows the disconnect between our self-described identity as a beacon of democracy and freedom and the reality when the rubber hits the road.
Under Bush's watch, our nation is the only major Western nation to refuse to sign a resolution that would decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.

In all, 66 of the U.N.'s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration - which backers called a historic step to push the General Assembly to deal more forthrightly with anti-gay discrimination. More than 70 U.N. members outlaw homosexuality, and in several of them homosexual acts can be punished by execution.

[Lisbeth]

It's hardly the first thing the US has refused to sign. There's been the ban on rendition and secret detention, the Cairo accord on women's rights, the treaty banning cluster bombs, and the Kyoto protocol.

[Mina_Frostfall]

The U.S. always seems to be against any treaties or resolutions supporting human rights or noble causes. It's shameful.

[RebeccaFog]

It's hardly the first thing the US has refused to sign. There's been the ban on rendition and secret detention, the Cairo accord on women's rights, the treaty banning cluster bombs, and the Kyoto protocol.

Maybe the idiot president doesn't know how to write his name.

[jenny_]

Surely its a bit of an odd time to have this resolution.  Couldn't they have just waited a month until Obama was in the the white house?

[glendagladwitch]

Can't you see it's all about dodging those bullets?

[jenny_]

hehe