After 10 years, the United Nations nongovernmental organizations (NGO) committee voted to give accredited status to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Association.
As has been the case in the U.S., the Obama administration has circumvented established U.N. procedures and protocol, in order to fast-track the group’s status.
When organizations are approved for official NGO status within the U.N. framework, they are officially empowered to have input — and influence — at varying levels within its decision-making structures.
The ultimate goal of the gay activists is to carve out special recognition — and, in effect, protected class status — for sexual orientation and gender identity within the framework of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
Austin Ruse, president of Catholic Families and Human Rights Institute, said gay organizations disagree with the historic pro-family foundation of the U.N.’s Declaration.
“This group is on record as believing that Bible-believing Christians should not have the same rights as they do,” said Ruse. “And, they also believe those who criticize homosexuals in public ought to have criminal penalties sanctioned against them.”
“The Obama administration is working aggressively to promote the homosexualist and transgender movement and is actively promoting their political goals and agenda at the international level,” said Thomas Jacobson, Focus on the Family’s representative to the U.N.
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Learn more about the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute.
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A complete list of the universal human rights instruments.
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