It's okay to kill gays, according to the UN

[Catterjune]

[quote]The resolution affirms the duties of member countries to protect the right to life of all people with a special emphasis on a call to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds. The resolution highlights particular groups historically subject to executions including street children, human rights defenders, members of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities, and, for the past 10 years, the resolution has included sexual orientation as a basis on which some individuals are targeted for death.

The tiny West African nation of Benin (on behalf of the UN's African Group) proposed an amendment to strike sexual minorities from the resolution. The amendment was adopted with 79 votes in favor, 70 against, 17 abstentions and 26 absent.[/quote]

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thor-halvorssen/united-nations-its-okay-t_b_787024.html

In short, the UN decides it's okay to kill homosexuals. It's like they knew today was my birthday! =D

[Zeppeli Gyro Supreme]

Oh, world. Why must you be so ignorant? Sometimes I wonder if we're secretly walking backward as we move forward.

[вєgσттєη ιηѕαηιту]

this is harmful to some people... i have reletives that are homosexual that besides the fact that they like the same gender... are perfectly normal people! this is messed up... (i originally had like five cus words...)

[Death Metal]

Why should only the homosexual die? I think that it should be okay to kill all people... not just the gays.

[Catterjune]

Really? No one wished me a Happy Birthday? ;_;

Anyway, yeah. It's supposed to be big stinkin' crime that they kill minorities, but about 76 countries no one cares about (List is on the bottom of the thing BTW) don't want it to be such a big f'in deal. So like... yeah.

[Zeppeli Gyro Supreme]

Happy birthday, Minnow (yes, I gave you a Nickname even though I don't know you very well, it sucks, and this is very awkward). You get the present of ignorance and hatred.

[Doomboi]

Well then, I guess I may as well get my BGF9000 and gib some gays

[Saturn of Elemia]

[quote name='Doom Marine' timestamp='1290748219' post='4810798']
Well then, I guess I may as well get my BGF9000 and gib some gays
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Might wanna get them all in one area and make sure no innocents are around before using something like THAT!

In all seriousness, this is disturbing and wrong.

[Icy]

Dont they have like Stenographers at these kind of things? I want ALL of that documents relating to this.

[Doomboi]

[quote name='SaTuRnPaLaDiN' timestamp='1290748581' post='4810806']
Might wanna get them all in one area and make sure no innocents are around before using something like THAT!

In all seriousness, this is disturbing and wrong.
[/quote]

A plasma gun will work good too, duntchathink?

[Bringerofcake]

[quote]
A collection of notorious human rights violators voted for the amendment including Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, North Korea, Iran (didn't Ahmadinejad tell the world there were no gays in Iran?), Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Add to this Bahamas, Belize (where you get 10 years for being gay), Jamaica (10 years of hard labor), Grenada (10 years), Guyana (life sentence), Saint Kitts and Nevis (10 years), Saint Lucia (10 years), Saint Vincent (10 years), South Africa (Apartheid? What apartheid?), and Morocco (ruled by a gay monarch!). They are all on the list of nations that do not think execution of gays and lesbians is worthy of condemnation or investigation. (The full vote tally is published beneath this column.)
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[quote]
Those against the amendment include every European nation present, all Scandinavian countries, India, Korea, most of Latin America, all of North America, and only one Middle Eastern nation: Israel.[/quote]

Not the ENTIRE UN.
geez people.

[Dark]

Betting on the fact that a majority of the countries who voted for this resolution have their national religion as either Christianity or Islam.

[六兆年と一夜物語]

[quote name='Dark' timestamp='1290801467' post='4811520']
Betting on the fact that a majority of the countries who voted for this resolution have their national religion as either Christianity or Islam.
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true dat

[Icy]

[quote name='Dark' timestamp='1290801467' post='4811520']
Betting on the fact that a majority of the countries who voted for this resolution have their national religion as either Christianity or Islam.
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I'd bet on the fact that the ones who voted for it, don't care what religion. It sounds more like a cultural thing than a religious one.

[Grunt Issun]

waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait!!!! All of north america was agianst this? Weird isnt it?

[GenzoTheHarpist]

Am I surprised that, basically the countries in favor of this are all the pits and that all "1st world" countries were opposed? Thankfully, the countries that didn't want this can self-regulate just fine.

Can we doubt that religion was a factor? That would be absurd. The idea that religion is of no importance to people's cultural perception of homosexuality is plainly against the facts of the matter; most people's hatred of them stems from the idea that homosexuality is a sin. Almost all condemnations of them are supported based on religious grounds.

[Icy]

[quote name='GenzoTheHarpist' timestamp='1290820984' post='4812301']
Can we doubt that religion was a factor? That would be absurd. The idea that religion is of no importance to people's cultural perception of homosexuality is plainly against the facts of the matter; most people's hatred of them stems from the idea that homosexuality is a sin. Almost all condemnations of them are supported based on religious grounds.
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Apologies, but in Hawaii. One's perception of what is right and wrong is not dictated by their religion. The only thing that changes is their mannerisms and even that's pushing it. Maybe word choice? So such things are seen as ridiculous. If you hate gay people, then you hate them. You don't hate them because [this] says you should. You would accuse a person of distaste for something outside themselves?

[I-dreezyAFG]

damn it afghanistan! u have failed me once again! thats it. im takin good ol' AK to afg and "convincing" hamid karzi to vote against the gay killing thing if he wants to stay president. anyone wanna join me?

[DARKPLANT RISING]

[quote name='.:HiTMaN:.' timestamp='1290831212' post='4812653']
damn it afghanistan! u have failed me once again! thats it. im takin good ol' AK to afg and "convincing" hamid karzi to vote against the gay killing thing if he wants to stay president. anyone wanna join me?
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Anyone with worse grammar.

OT: Sucks. I generally don't care about gays, but that's because I think they're normal, not because I hate them.

[GenzoTheHarpist]

[quote name='.:HiTMaN:.' timestamp='1290831212' post='4812653']
damn it afghanistan! u have failed me once again! thats it. im takin good ol' AK to afg and "convincing" hamid karzi to vote against the gay killing thing if he wants to stay president. anyone wanna join me?
[/quote]
Yes, that would definitely be good for the democratic development of Afghanistan to do something that is against the will of the people there. You can either have them be a crazy muslim democracy, or a secular dictatorship. You can't have the best of both worlds.

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(Don't hate. Appreciate.)

Watch, now a flood of homosexuals is going to rush through all 70 countries that said no.

I'm actually quite surprised US said no. [s]Maybe we're finally starting to realize we shouldn't hate each other for our origins, preferences, or beliefs.[/s]Someone miscounted.

[I-dreezyAFG]

[quote name='GenzoTheHarpist' timestamp='1290838797' post='4812840']
Yes, that would definitely be good for the democratic development of Afghanistan to do something that is against the will of the people there. You can either have them be a crazy muslim democracy, or a secular dictatorship. You can't have the best of both worlds.
[/quote]

i honestly do not know which one is the good one. anyways, did anyone notice that [s]all[/s] most muslim countries voted for it and not against it? that certainly is weird....

[Dark]

It's hilarious how the US voted against this resolution, and yet we have still not legalized gay and lesbian marriages.

Then again, I haven't seen a compiled list of which countries have legalized it. :/

[Yasu]

Eh, I think it was pretty obvious America was going to say no.
You have no faith in your country.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory#Africa.
Nothing new, really.

[Zeppeli Gyro Supreme]

[quote name='Dark' timestamp='1290877953' post='4813452']
It's hilarious how the US voted against this resolution, and yet we have still not legalized gay and lesbian marriages.

Then again, I haven't seen a compiled list of which countries have legalized it. :/
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Part of it might not be because of viewpoints, but pure politics. If the US looks like they support gays even if they do not in reality, they keep the community subdued and stop them from lashing out at the government. Plus, just because they don't believe in gay marriage doesn't mean they have to not like gays in general. The US is pretty much working to become completely non-biased toward minority groups, but that doesn't mean they plan on extending additional rights to them.