US still hates gays…
In an unsurprising - and selfish - move the United States has decided that it should still have to right to criminalize the mere existence of homosexuality. The reason the US delegation put forward for not supporting the declaration is that as the federal government they are not legally aloud to contravene laws of individual US States.
The US should start to discuss the issue that it at the source of this stance: the federation of states that is the US is incapable of working internationally when matters of State jurisdiction override the mandate of the federal. It the follows that the 50 States should send their own delegations to the UN instead of relying on the federal government to meet their needs in international agreements.
Of course, expecting anything meaningful from the UN at all is hollow. This is an organization with a Security Council of warmongers, where despotic states chair human rights councils, countries with no human rights still have the ability to negotiate a variety of international law deals, and member countries like France, the highest per-capita exporter of arms to the world, pretends to care about human welfare by sponsoring gay rights declarations.
Of course, back to the original point, if the US government actually bought into the Constitution, it’d have no problem supporting the passage of a declaration attacking the criminalization of homosexuality. You’d think that we were still stuck in the 19th century.
Thanks to MSNBC for the tip.
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