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Re: US votes against UN resolution condemning death penalty for apostasy and gay sex

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 11 Nov 19 10:29 AM | 48 view(s)
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I suppose it could be positioned as a loss of influence story. The US couldn't influence the text of the resolution or persuade its allies to support them and so voted against it.

But that's shocking in a different way. The US is becoming a pariah in conversations about freedom and human rights. The ideas of the GOP just have no purchase.

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US votes against UN resolution condemning death penalty for apostasy and gay sex
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Mon, 11 Nov 19 10:12 AM 		Msg. 32737 of 54959

Good grief. What a sad, ugly, theocratic nation the US has become.

"The US is one of just 13 countries to have voted against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty for having gay sex.

Although the vote passed, America joined countries such as China, Iraq and Saudi Arabia in opposing the move.

The Human Rights Council resolution condemned the “imposition of the death penalty as a sanction for specific forms of conduct, such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and consensual same-sex relations”."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-gay-sex-death-penalty-un-same-sex-relations-human-rights-council-saudi-arabia-iraq-nikki-haley-a7980981.html

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