...that Bush and his administration can't work with Muslims...you just need the right issue...say executing queers. Today the always self-righteous US of A stands alone among Western nations in refusing to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality. Thus Dubya gets to stand arm and arm with such models of democracy and human rights as his buddy Ahmadinejad in Iran, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Bangladesh, UAE, Yemen and of course the Saudis who all proudly offer the death penalty to adults for their consensual sexual activity.
The photo above shows the 2005 execution of 2 Iranian youths "convicted" of homosexuality.
Of course in the proud tradition of American legal reasoning, US opposition was carefully constructed in terms of "federal and states rights" issues rather than, god-forbid, opposition to homosexuality itself. The text of the declaration is available here. "66 of the United Nations' 192 member countries signed the declaration, including every member of the European Union and every major Western nation except the United States...." American Exceptionalism still lives....
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So embarrassing. And then there was the cheery Christmas message from Pope Benedict stating that saving humanity from homosexual and transexual behaviour is as important as saving the tropics from deforestation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/23/pope-gender-sexuality
I think Bill Maher would probably comment on the irony of a guy who wears a dress making a statement like this, but since I am not Bill Maher ...
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