Yes, it’s incredibly offensive . . . yes, it’s backassword . . . yes, it’s an affront to reasonable thinking . . . yes, it’s true.

The UN has removed sexual orientation from a list of discriminatory killings. For ten years, the UN has had a list of various types of executions that member nations are supposed to investigate and prevent . . . these are executions that are considered a gross violation of human and civil rights and are considered WRONG with a capital Wrong. That list, includes a number of reasons people might be executed for which are considered unacceptable . . . religion, ethnicity, language, human rights workers, journalists, political speech, and the like . . . for ten years it also included sexual orientation which has been considered a wrong reason to execute someone.

Well, the UN has now had a vote and they’ve removed sexual orientation from the list. So, in effect, the United Nations is now saying that it’s perfectly legitimate to execute a person merely for their sexual orientation.

Granted, it was a narrow vote . . . with a slew of countries abstaining or absent . . . but even a narrow margin is a loss and laws or guidelines don’t work on degrees, something like this is either okay or not okay and as it stands now, the UN says it’s okay to kill gays and lesbians just for being gays or lesbians.

See the piece at Pink Paper for more – http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/4319/18/11/2010/countries-vote-to-accept-execution-of-gays.aspx – notice the countries that pushed this through are the very countries who have been suspected most strongly of murdering (oh, sorry, rightfully executing undesirables) gays and lesbians merely for sexual orientation.

This is about as sad as a thing can get.

The next thing you know, those countries that don’t execute but which do discriminate may begin using the “well, it should be okay to block gays and lesbians from this or that right . . . they should be happy with this or that discriminatory practice as at least we don’t line ’em up against a wall and shoot ’em” which unfortunately is exactly what such dumbassery type thinking so often does lead up to.

Seriously, this is mega wrong and so very very offensive.

This is NOT just some little disagreement, this is a big deal no matter how far it gets pushed down into the bottom of some hidden page . . . this is a major ideological challenge within the UN as well as for the world. This is a big deal and it’s big deal wrong in so very many ways. The nations that have allowed this through have essentially said that “we are happy to fight for the rights and lives of these classes of people but the lives of gays and lesbians are not worthy of any such consideration” . . . I would STRONGLY suggest that anyone travelling NOT visit any of the nations that voted in favor of this thing . . . especially, and this is truly important, if you are gay or lesbian but even if you are not I would suggest you consider NOT risking it . . . as the slippery slope is indeed slippery and this particular slippery slope that the UN has now happily climbed aboard is indeed the Slippery Slope of Vile and Sinister Evil at Its Most Pure.

This is so very sad . . . I have quite a large number of gay and lesbian friends and acquaintances and to think that the UN has now – through the very act of omission from that protected list – stated that it is OKAY for governments to summarily kill them merely for being gay or lesbian . . . not for being murderers, rapists, terrorists, or for removing the tags from mattresses but merely for being who they are and alive . . . to think that THEIR ONLY CRIME IS TO BE, TO EXIST, TO INHABIT THIS PLANET . . . while others have the right to life, the UN has now said that this right is not shared with gays and lesbians . . . wow.

Yes, wow.

– Brian