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HOMOSEXUALS USE THE UN TO PUSH THEIR AGENDA

Not content to merely push their agenda country by country, homosexual activists are now proposing a global enactment of their agenda by way of the UN.

In April, at the meeting in Geneva of the 53-member UN Human Rights Commission, Brazil, in an unprecedented resolution co-sponsored by Canada, moved that the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights be amended to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation world-wide.

This is the first resolution in UN history to link homosexuality with human rights. International law scholars agree that if such a proposal is passed, it will have serious ramifications for society and religions, resulting in same-sex marriage, hate crimes' legislation, and a curtailing of freedom of speech and religion world-wide. At the very least, this initiative opens the door to attacks on religious faiths with regard to hiring, employment, and the faith's own doctrines.

This resolution was heavily promoted by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) which described this resolution as an "historic opportunity to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues into human rights law." The debate on April 25, 2003, was intense. The resolution was backed, in addition to the sponsors, Brazil and Canada, by 17 other nations, such as Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Ukraine, U.K., Uruguay and Venezuela. Fortunately, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, headed by Pakistan, and including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Malaysia, made a submission which stated that "the resolution directly contradicts the tenets of Islam and other religions," and that its approval would be "a direct insult to 1.2 billion Muslims around the world."

This pressure from the Muslim countries was one of the reasons for the decision by the UN Human Rights Commission to postpone its vote on the resolution until next year.

Powerful homosexual activists were enraged by this postponement and blamed, in addition to the Muslim countries, the US and the Vatican for an "unholy alliance." Homosexual activists have promised to redouble their efforts to lobby governments world-wide.

Homosexuals Meet at the UN in August

A UN organization that promotes homosexual marriage, the Association of UN Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Employees (UNGLOBE), which received official UN recognition in 1996, organized an international meeting of homosexual activists at the UN in August. UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, briefly attended this meeting, and lesbian Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF, sent a message of support to the meeting.

During a panel discussion, Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), which promoted the proposed amendment on sexual orientation in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in April, 2003, announced a coming "showdown with religion", and claimed that the Vatican's "call to arms" against homosexual marriage would be successfully combated. However, it was Canada's own NDP homosexual MP, Svend Robinson, who brought the meeting to its feet in wild applause when he attacked the Catholic Bishop in Calgary, Frederick Henry, for his "unbelievable" statement in defence of traditional marriage. Robinson then mocked "born again" Evangelical Christians asking, "Did they have to come back again as themselves?" This was an insult attacking a foundational doctrine of Evangelical Christians, and was intended to both marginalize Christians and encourage others to uphold a discriminatory attitude toward them. The WorldNet Daily reported that these remarks by Mr. Robinson received "thunderous applause."

The panel also discussed ways to ensure that the resolution introduced by Brazil would be successful when it comes up for a vote at the Human Rights Commission next year. Mr. Robinson promised a world-wide lobbying campaign to achieve this. A meeting will be held in San Diego, California, this fall of homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered parliamentarians to organize these efforts. In a flier distributed during this UN meeting, a list was made of the laws considered discriminatory. These included sodomy, prostitution, laws penalizing wearing of clothing of the opposite sex, pornography laws, denial of marriage to same-sex couples and adoptions by homosexuals and lesbians.

In effect, the above list is a road map to be followed by homosexual activists. If they are successful in their efforts, our society will collapse into degenerate chaos. We cannot allow this to happen.

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