This year the UN Commission for NGO's again refused to give consultative status to several LGBT NGO's in ECOSOC. The Holy See delegate said in the commission:
"Sexual orientation is not comparable to race or ethnic origin. In spite of its assertions about human rights, this NGO’s particular interests fall beyond the scope of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international juridical instruments: In other words, what ILGA and its proponents are asking is not for equal rights but special rights; special rights that allow others a leeway for a discreet suppression of moral distinctions in choices and behavior that are of vital concern to the international community and the international order."
It is time that people and instutions blocking certain LGBT people to be protected from hate, violence and discrimination because of who they are, are kept responsible for the consequenses.
"On many occasions that the Holy See has been misunderstood, it is because it has always critically distinguished a homosexual person from his/her choices and behavior. The Holy See has always respected and defended all persons who are entitled to the protection of their fundamental dignity granted not by the State, not by some international organization, but by the nature given to them by the Creator."
And who says that the creator doesn't entitle me, who has sexual intercourse with partners of the same sex, fundamental dignity?
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"The lack of making a stand against public homosexual behavior amounts to regarding homosexuality, as such, “as a positive source of human rights. Tolerance without standards seeks to create a level playing field offering loopholes for suppressing moral distinctions in choices and behavior which would be tantamount to accepting fake expressions of “anarchic freedom.”
I believe thus I can discriminate?
"The Holy See's position on marriage and adoption of children is based precisely on a recognition of a fundamental truth: marriage is based on the union of a man and a woman; the family is based on marriage. In spite of interpretations to the contrary, this is the meaning of the Universal Declaration and the 1966 Covenants. Furthermore new forms of family structure are weaker and less stable."
People, wake up! Already since five years the marriage in many countries can also be an union of a man and a man, or a woman and a woman. This is not an interpretation, but a fact!
"If this stand of the Holy See which hopefully is shared by other distinguished members of the NGO Committee here, were to be taken as an imposition of its own morality, in response it cannot but say that “gay rights laws and the demand for special rights as well impose one view of sexual morality (sexual relativism) on all peoples and then enforce this code of morality on constituents of other groups holding other beliefs and legislations.”
Who are the non-distinguished members? And who try to impose?
22.5.06
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