That's why I'm celibate.
"UN endorses gay, transgender rights" by Associated Press / June 18, 2011
GENEVA — The United Nations endorsed the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgender people for the first time yesterday, passing a resolution hailed as historic by the United States and other backers and decried by African and Muslim countries.
The declaration was cautiously worded, expressing “grave concern’’ about abuses because of sexual orientation and commissioning a global report on discrimination against gays.
How about abuses against people because they happen to be living over oil reserves or are in the way of energy sources and happen to be of a certain religion that doesn't employ usury?
But activists called it an important shift on an issue that has divided the global body for decades, and they credited the Obama administration’s push for gay rights at home and abroad.
I'm getting to the point where I just say give them all they want. You guys can marry plants for all I care.
“This represents a historic moment to highlight the human rights abuses and violations that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face around the world based solely on who they are and whom they love,’’ Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement....
Backers included the United States, the European Union, Brazil, and other Latin American countries. Those against included Russia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. China, Burkina Faso, and Zambia abstained, Kyrgyzstan didn’t vote, and Libya was suspended from the rights body earlier.
Too each his own.
The resolution expressed “grave concern at acts of violence and discrimination, in all regions of the world, committed against individuals because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.’’
I suppose there are gay Palestinians, 'eh?
Just another form of collective punishment from Israel.
More importantly, activists said, it also established a formal UN process to document human rights abuses against gays, including discriminatory laws and acts of violence. According to Amnesty International, consensual same-sex relations are illegal in 76 countries, and harassment and discrimination are common in many more.
Hey, I'm not for violence against anybody; I'm an end-the-wars guy, remember?
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"Obama’s evolving gay marriage stance piques interest of donors, activists; Some strategists see little cost in backing unions" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times / June 19, 2011
Gay Stolberg? Nice touch, NYT.
WASHINGTON — Driving across the flatlands of Illinois with Barack Obama during the Senate race of 2004, Kevin Thompson sometimes found himself tutoring the candidate on gay rights.
Thompson, then a traveling aide, recalls long conversations about topics like the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion that sparked the gay rights movement, gay adoption — Obama once volunteered that Thompson and his partner would make “great parents,’’ Thompson recalled — and same-sex marriage, which Obama has in the past opposed.
Thompson, an Obama supporter, is skeptical about that. “To this day,’’ he said, “I don’t think Barack Obama has any issue with two people of the same gender getting married.’’
Now Obama says his views on same-sex marriage are evolving, and as he runs for reelection he is seeking support from gay donors who want to know where he stands.
This week, he will headline a $1,250-a-plate “Gala with the Gay Community’’ in New York, his first such event as president; on June 29, he will host a Gay Pride reception at the White House. He is doing so at a time when the New York Legislature is considering whether to make same-sex marriage legal — a vote that the president will no doubt be asked about while in New York....
Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who is gay, said in an interview that a top adviser to Obama, whom he would not name, asked him this year, “What would be the effect if he came out for same-sex marriage?’’
“My own view is that I look at President Obama’s record, he was probably inclined to think that same-sex marriage was legitimate, but as a candidate for president in 2008 that would have been an unwise thing to say,’’ Frank said. “And I don’t mean that he’s being hypocritical. I mean that if you live in a democratic society, it is a mix of what you think the voters want and what you think is doable.’’
It's the taxpayers that always seem to get done; however, THAT is Barney's Frank's idea of DEMOCRACY?
We are in WORSE TROUBLE than even I IMAGINED!
Many gay leaders say because the president has a strong record on issues they care about — prodding Congress to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy, which barred openly gay men and lesbians from serving in the military, and withdrawing legal support for the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman — he is not under pressure to announce a change in his position before the 2012 election....
Then the stonewall went up.
Oh well.
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"Gay pride rallies held in several cities
SOFIA — Gays and lesbians marched in several Eastern European capitals yesterday protected by hundreds of riot police after some extremist groups urged members to stop the gay pride rallies.
Related: Gay Pride Parade Rained On Again
The flag kind of says it all, no?
The agenda-pushing AmeriKan sure does seem to give them an awful lot of positive press.
Nearly 1,000 people joined the gay pride rally in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, organizers said. Twice as many paraded through the Croatian capital of Zagreb under rainbow arches of balloons and banners for that city’s gay pride march. Hungarian gay rights activists also took to the streets in Budapest (AP)."
Why stop there?
"Two groups cancel Gandhi book event; Controversy over rumors about gay relationship cited" April 10, 2011|By Jay Lindsay, Associated Press
Two Lexington groups have canceled an appearance by the author of a Mahatma Gandhi biography that’s been banned in part of India, the second cancellation this month for the author.
Joseph Lelyveld’s “Great Soul,’’ about Gandhi’s struggle for social justice, was banned in the western state of Gujarat last month after reviews hinted that Gandhi had a homosexual relationship. Such relationships were illegal in India until 2009 and still carry a stigma.
Either way he was a loving soul, huh?
What a contrast the the PoS scum that rise to power in the western world. Guys like Weiner, and Strauss-Kahn, and all the other lechers over the decades, too numerous to name, as well as the sick perverts who preyed on congressional pages.
Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former executive editor of The New York Times, said yesterday the book never alleges Gandhi was gay or bisexual....
Lelyveld’s book has not been released in India but was banned in Gujarat after several reviews described Gandhi’s relationship with a German man named Hermann Kallenbach, including a letter to Kallenbach that read, “How completely you have taken possession of my body. This is slavery with a vengeance.’’
So Gandhi was really a devil?
Lelyveld said the controversy centers on three paragraphs out of about a dozen pages about the relationship that also describe both men’s commitment to celibacy, which Lelyveld believes they kept.
Lelyveld has made several appearances for the book this month without incident, including in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C....
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