U.S. Refuses to Endorse U.N. Call to End Gay ’Crimes’

[SF Brawny Bear]

This says a lot about the power of the US's conservative base. Rather than moving forward with equal rights for all citizens, they choose to create a second class citizenship. We can only hope that the courts recognize this injustice and protect the minority from the mob rule of the majority.

The US government is one of the only Western democratic nations that has declined to support a United Nations Declaration calling for the global decriminalisation of homosexuality.

The Declaration will be put before the UN General Assembly this Wednesday, 10 December, which is Human Rights Day and the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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