Anti-Gay U.S. Vote at UN : 'Bigotry Conquers All'

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0130-07.htm

Published on Monday, January 30, 2006 by OneWorld.net

'Bigotry Conquers All,' Gay Rights Groups Say of U.S. Vote at UN
by Abid Aslam

WASHINGTON - The governments of the United States and Iran--part of President George W. Bush's ''axis of evil'' and his current nuclear bete noire--demonstrated rare unity of cause this past week when Washington backed a Tehran initiative to deny UN access to advocates of sexual minorities' rights.

Critics of the move denounced it as a show of bigotry.

''This vote is an aggressive assault by the U.S. government on the right of sexual minorities to be heard,'' said Scott Long, director of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

''It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran, and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic,'' Long said.

Rights advocates said the Bush administration's international posture matched its increasingly strident and discriminatory bent at home. Religiously and socially extremist elements of the U.S. population and among Bush's supporters--to whom many pundits attributed the president's 2004 re-election-- have been increasingly loud and militant over the past year, according to human rights activists.


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[Touchdown]

1. Not suprised at all by this.

We only call ourselves "the best country in the world". One day we will be expected to prove it.

[Obamarama]

2. Par for the course. Pathetic, isn't it? n/t