Homosexual Groups Lobbying for Access, Influence on U.N. Council
by Mary Rettig
June 7, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A representative to the United Nations for Focus on the Family says the United States is starting to change its tune when it comes to adding homosexuals to a special interest lobbying group.
Thomas Jacobson says two homosexual organizations were denied membership to the U.N. Economic and Social Council last month, and the United States at that time voted with the majority. However, he notes, in May the U.S. delegation voted to approve the two groups, and he believes there is a likely explanation for the delegation's change in position.
Jacobson believes this vote may have been designed to appease homosexual groups that have been lobbying for U.N. access and that were unhappy with the U.S. for voting against their membership. "Secretary Rice and the State Department and the Bush administration got really strong opposition from a number of members of Congress," he says, also noting that some of the lawmakers wrote to Rice and a number of pro-homosexual groups "really criticized her strongly for that."
Homosexual organizations started lobbying the U.S. after it first voted against the homosexual groups in January, Jacobson says. He believes this is because homosexual activist organizations realize that groups on the Economic and Social Council have significant power in the United Nations, and they want to implement that power for their agenda.
Such groups can get identification badges and can go onto the U.N. grounds, the American U.N. representative points out. They can also "attend committee meetings and many of the U.N. meetings, can lobby ambassadors and diplomats, can submit papers and statements for consideration in the debates, and can really be a player at the table," he says.
The concern in all this, Jacobson explains, is that homosexual groups appear to be working internally at the United Nations to influence decisions on homosexual issues. What these groups have realized, he says, is that gaining access to the U.N. Economic and Social Council is the doorway to making homosexuality and other deviant sexual behaviors a globally recognized human right.
Mary Rettig, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
