365Gay: Vatican trashes UN declaration of LGBT rights
December 2, 2008 at 10:13 pm (Edward II, Hadrian, Julius Caesar, Lord Byron, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Socrates, age of consent, anal sex, civil unions, fraternal birth order, transgendered) (365gay, Celestino Migliore, civil rights, Congress of German Jurists, Discrimination, European Union, gay france, gender identity, general assembly, homosexuality, human rights, Jeremy Bentham, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, lgbt rights, same-sex marriage, Sexual Inversion, sexual orientation, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Terminal Essay, Thomas Cannon, transgendered, united nations, vatican)
FROM 365GAY.COM:
By 365gay Newscenter Staff
12.02.2008 1:50pm ESTRome – International human rights groups are denouncing the Vatican for condemning a proposed United Nations declaration which would – for the first time – call for civil rights for gays, lesbians and the transgendered.
The proposed declaration condemns “discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity” and will be presented at the General Assembly on Dec. 10 by France.
The document has been signed by the member states of the European Union. It was drafted by France, which currently holds the rotating EU Presidency.
Dec. 10th was chosen to present it to the General Assembly because the date marks the 60th anniversary of the UN declaration of human rights.
More than 80 nations have laws denying or limiting LGBT civil rights. Some Moslem countries impose the death penalty on homosexuality while others have lengthy prison sentences.
The Vatican in a statement said the declaration would force countries to legalize same-sex marriage.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s permanent observer at the UN, said in the statement that the declaration would discriminate against states which support traditional marriage.
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