U.N. Commission to Consider 'Sexual Orientation' Resolution
by Bill Fancher and Jody Brown
February 24, 2004
(AgapePress) - The United Nations is about to try and declare "sexual orientation" as a human right. Pro-family groups are gearing up for a showdown in Geneva.
The U.N.'s Commission on Human Rights meets for six weeks each year to examine, monitor, and report either on human rights situations in specific countries or territories, or on major phenomena of human rights violations worldwide. This year, the more than 3,000 delegates will meet from March 15 through April 23.
Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America says one of the discussion topics over that period of time will involve an effort to declare sexual orientation a human right. "The argument that [supporters of the resolution are] using is that any opposition to what they call 'sexual orientation' is discrimination," Wright explains.
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In April 2003, the Commission voted to postpone consideration of draft resolution E/CN.4/2003/L.92 -- entitled "Human Rights and Sexual Orientation" -- until this year's session. Wright says there is a huge problem with the term "sexual orientation" because there are currently 23 recognized sexual orientations."So if this resolution passes," she says, "it would not only try and eliminate discrimination against homosexuality, it would be used to try and eliminate discrimination against any form of sexual behavior or sexual activity."
If the U.N. has its way, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, homosexuality, and other sexual deviancies could become an international human right. According to Wright, U.N. officials are not ignorant of that possibility.
"Whenever I have been at the U.N. and spoken with delegates and officials, and pointed out that there are 23 different kinds of sexual orientation, I have yet to get a response back saying, 'Oh, that's not true' or 'Oh, this would be limited,'" Wright says. "When they are confronted with this fact, [they all] recognize that this would not be limited to only one or two kinds of sexual orientation."
Wright says pro-family groups will be ready for the challenge that awaits them in Geneva. Concerned Women for America and other groups will be working with many other religious-oriented nations to prevent the Human Rights Conference from making deviant behavior a protected right.
The resolution was introduced originally by the delegation from Brazil. South Africa is among the countries sponsoring the resolution.
