Check out the excuse the Egyptian delegation at the UN came up with to dismiss gay rights:
“Finally, concerning the highly controversial notion of sexual orientation, we can only reiterate that it is not part of the universally recognized human rights,” said the Egyptian delegation at the UN Human Rights Council.
We’re going to deny the legitimacy of gay rights, so that means it’s not universally recognized. And since it’s not universally recognized, we’re going to deny its legitimacy. See how that works?
I thought it was?
I mean, I don’t see it explicitly laid out on the UN UDHR, but I thought I read somewhere that sexual orientation (and perhaps gender identity) were added to some universal human rights document somewhere?
@Katherine, unless I’m mistaken, you are probably thinking of the addition of sexual orientation and gender-identity as human rights in the Declaration. This was proposed some years ago, but blocked from adoption as part of the Declaration by the Arab Leaque and the Catholic Church working in concert.
Maybe that’s what I was thinking of. Of course it’s religion that would block the addition of human rights for every human – ah well.
Thank you.
That would be what I was thinking of, yes.
It sounds like they have been taking lessons in DoubleSpeak from the Christian bigots over here.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.