Pressuring other nations to protect glbt people is NOT A FUCKING CULTURAL DIFFERENCE.
The Vatican could have shut the fuck up and let the other nations weigh in but instead chose to IMMEDIATELY oppose the resolution, how dare you defend their actions and accuse other DUers of using inflammatory rhetoric?
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The title of the article is meant to be inflammatory. Marriage isn't even mentioned."
Did you even read the fucking thing? The Vatican used its defense of "traditional" marriage as an excuse.
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I cannot believe that if any country called for a global end to the death penalty for homsexual acts that the Vatican would oppose it. I cannot imagine any humanitarian reason for opposing such a resolution"Um, funny thing happened, the UN just did call for an end to it, and the Vatican peed all over itself in its rush to oppose the resolution:
Archbishop Celestino Migliore said the Vatican opposed the resolution because it would "add new categories of those protected from discrimination" and could lead to reverse discrimination against traditional heterosexual marriage.
"If adopted, they would create new and implacable discriminations," Migliore said. "For example, states which do not recognise same-sex unions as 'matrimony' will be pilloried and made an object of pressure," Migliore said.
Oh, dear, the horror.
We can't add new categories of people to the list of those whose human rights are protected, can we?
What would the rest of the world think?
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The very idea of a proposing such a resolution, knowing that it would be opposed, makes no sense to me. The very idea of a Catholic nation proposing such a resolution, knowing that the Vatican, as the Church of France, would oppose it, makes even less sense."
Oh, I know, so what if people are being killed because they weren't born heterosexuals like the rest of us?
Why should the UN propose doing something about all those silly little human rights violations?
Yes, of course, you're right, it makes no sense at all, how dare they worry our beautiful minds like that?
"As Americans, we are very spoiled in our expectation that church and state shall be separate. This is another example of not accepting cultural differences. It doesn't occur to many of us that some countries WANT church and state to be linked."
Keeping our opinions to ourselves while other nations continue to persecute and kill glbt people is NOT an option.
Just like slavery, this issue has nothing to do with cultural differences and everything to do with human rights.
"I'm no fan of inquisitions and executions, but it annoys me when one culture tries to impose its values on another."
Are you fucking kidding me?
Asking other countries to NOT KILL GAY PEOPLE
annoys you?
Disgusting.
I'm ashamed for you.
Since you're obviously not familiar with it, I suggest you read this
document and reconsider our obligations to our brothers and sisters - no matter where they live.
