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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

US Refuses to Sign UN Resolution on Gay Rights

By Ed Brayton

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pThe Bush administration a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h1rNjQnbi3UUwYn7JGfk4pLIO6DgD955IQK80"refused to vote/a for a UN resolution urging nations to decriminalize homosexuality. /p blockquoteAlone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality. pIn all, 66 of the U.N.'s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration -- which backers called a historic step to push the General Assembly to deal more forthrightly with any-gay discrimination. More than 70 U.N. members outlaw homosexuality, and in several of them homosexual acts can be punished by execution./blockquote/p a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/us_refuses_to_sign_un_resoluti.php"Read the rest of this post.../a | a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/us_refuses_to_sign_un_resoluti.php#commentsArea"Read the comments on this post.../aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/dispatches/~4/492280061" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).