... or other primarlily ME Muslim countries, reports of human rights violations which seem to come to light only when the Bushreich wants to paint their next target(s) as hot beds of intolerance and religous extremism, consider this:
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/25/iran12535.htmUnited Nations: U.S. Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote Rice Must Explain Repressive UN Ban on LGBT Rights Groups (Washington, D.C., January 25, 2006) - In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, a coalition of 40 organizations, led by the Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called for an explanation of the vote which aligned the United States with governments that have long repressed the rights of sexual minorities.
This vote is an aggressive assault by the U.S. government on the right of sexual minorities to be heard. It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic.
“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 LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch. “It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic.”
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Or this:
"AFA has advocate for executing gays and abortion providers on its radio show" http://pandagon.net/2006/02/14/afa-has-advocate-for-executing-gays-and-abortion-providers-on-its-radio-show/ Or this:
Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:08am EST
American Family Association opened its airwaves to advocate for executing gays, adulterers, abortion doctors Summary: Far-right Christian author and American Vision president Gary DeMar was the guest on the February 2 edition of American Family Radio's Today's Issues. In the past, DeMar has advocated the installation of a theocratic government in the United States in which homosexuals, adulterers, and abortion doctors would be executed.
Or this:
http://blog01.kintera.com/christianalliance/archives/2005/06/americans_of_ev.html"Other groups, such as the Alliance Defense Fund, the Coalition on Revival and the Council for National Policy have very close ties to the Reconstructionists. The ADF, which was founded by evangelicals such as the late Bill Bright of Campus Crusade and D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, as well as the late Larry Burkett of Crown Financial Concepts which is the fundamentalist’s version of the ACLU, brings the Reconstructionists to teach law students in their summer Blackstone Fellowship program, including such figures as George Grant, who advocates the execution of homosexuals in his book Legislating Immorality, and Gary DeMar who would also execute adulterers, women who seek abortions, and the doctors that perform them. The Coalition on Revival, which openly advocates the closing of public schools and abolishing the IRS, has detailed position paper on its web site outlining what and why they believe that the Bible should be the basis of all law and government. "
Or these "men of God" who advocate castration or execution of gays:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1092.shtmlHow about this GOP candidiate who avdocates death for gays?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/25/5445/1320Video: Republican candidate supports EXECUTION of GAYS by scottmaui
Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 02:04:45 AM PDT
You've got to watch this video.
My Democratic state Senator here on Maui, J. Kalani English, has a Republican running against him named Robb Finberg, a Pastor for the Christian Fellowship Church.
In this video, Finberg actually says that he would support a law for the execution of people found guilty of performing homosexual acts.
Yes, that's right, he favors the death penalty for gays.
Watch the video here:
http://mikegabbard.info/rob_finberg.htmHere's some spiritual leadership for you...
http://www.counterbias.com/679.html Even today, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, some Christian fundamentalists continue the call for hatred and the violence that inevitably follows. Although not calling for their execution, Rev. Lou Sheldon, founder and chairman of the rabidly homophobic Traditional Values Coalition, has claimed gays and lesbians need “an exorcism” and has called for their segregation into “cities of refuge” (aka “concentration camps”).
"Another notorious homophobe is Dr. D. James Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge Ministries. His former vice president, George Grant, wrote Legislating Immorality, a sermonic tome that included a fire-and-brimstone rant on America’s abandonment of a Scripture-inspired death penalty for homosexuality.
And then there’s Michael Marcavage of Repent America, a radical fundamentalists organization, who claims he’s not calling for the extermination of gays, but some take his words to mean just that. At least fellow “Christian” crusader (and certified wing-nut) Rev. Fred Phelps – of “GodHatesFags.com” infamy – is blunt about his desire to execute gay Americans. So to sum it up, the next time the Bushreich steps up its campaign to paint its enemies in the ME as barbaric persecutors of gays (and we know they will use gays to suit any political purpose), remember that it's perfectly predictable for them to point fingers elsewhere whilst committing or tolerating persecution and hate crimes right here at home. In fact, in its virulent war against gays, this government has aligned itself with countries like Iran and against its own tradtional allies in Europe.
Hate and intolerance is unacceptable anywhere, but the next time the PR machine for the Bushreich starts pointing fingers at nation's half a world away simply to serve their own agenda, let's call them on their own record here at home. Let's demand that domestic terrorists embedded within organizations such as the AFA and elsewhere be exposed for the religious extremists THEY are.
Finally, GET THE FACTS AND FIGHT BACK!
http://www.hatecrime.org/index.htmlhttp://gaylife.about.com/od/hatecrimes/a/statistics.htmhttp://www.exgaywatch.com/blog/archives/2005/02/uniform_hate_cr.htmlhttp://www.glaad.org/http://www.lambda.org/hatecr1.htmhttp://www.stophate.us/hcpa.htmlhttp://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=16949