{"id":3692,"date":"2010-12-22T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2010-12-22T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:23:40","slug":"c-street-republicans-defeated-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/c-street-republicans-defeated-at-un\/","title":{"rendered":"C Street Republicans Defeated at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Regular readers here know the whole story about how C Street Republicans have assisted in a social engineering plan to pass a law in Uganda that calls for life imprisonment, and in some cases, death for gay Ugandans.&#160; Most recently, I covered it extensively in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/?p=3593\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Death Panels at Home and Abroad<\/a>.&#160; Fortunately the UN just dealt their nefarious plans a severe blow.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"22cstreet\" border=\"0\" alt=\"22cstreet\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/22cstreet.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"338\" \/>Suporters of rights for gays and lesbians worldwide secured a major victory at the United Nations this week<\/strong>. <strong>The 192-nation U.N. General Assembly voted to restore a reference to killings due to sexual orientation that had been deleted from a resolution condemning unjustified slayings<\/strong>. The shift came after <strong>the United States submitted an amendment to restore the reference<\/strong>, which the General Assembly\u2019s human rights committee removed last month from a resolution on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions that is adopted every two years\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The committee\u2019s deletion of the reference last month \u2014 at the proposal of African and Arab nations \u2014 had outraged Western countries and human rights activists. <strong>Similar resolutions adopted in previous years have explicitly mentioned killings due to sexual preference, along with slayings for racial, national, ethnic, religious or linguistic reasons and killings of refugees, indigenous people and other groups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cary Alan Johnson, executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iglhrc.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission<\/a> (IGLHRC), was pleased with the outcome. \u201cThe outpouring of support from the international community sent the strong message to our representatives at the U.N. that <strong>it is unacceptable to make invisible the deadly violence LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people face because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation<\/strong>.\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/global\/2010\/12\/22\/un-victory-for-gay-rights-supporters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not be more pleased that these Republicans and their Ugandan cronies have another obstacle in the way of expressing their hate against the LGBT community.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers here know the whole story about how C Street Republicans have assisted in a social engineering plan to pass a law in Uganda that calls for life imprisonment, and in some cases, death for gay Ugandans.&#160; Most recently, I covered it extensively in Republican Death Panels at Home and Abroad.&#160; Fortunately the UN <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/c-street-republicans-defeated-at-un\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}