6.17.2002
you're kidding me, right?
from today's washington post:
UNITED NATIONS -- Conservative U.S. Christian organizations have joined forces with
Islamic governments to halt the expansion of sexual and political protections and rights
for gays, women and children at United Nations conferences.
The new alliance, which coalesced during the past year, has received a major boost
from the Bush administration, which appointed antiabortion activists to key positions
on U.S. delegations to U.N. conferences on global economic and social policy.
But it has been largely galvanized by conservative Christians who have set aside
their doctrinal differences, cemented ties with the Vatican and cultivated fresh links
with a powerful bloc of more than 50 moderate and hard-line Islamic governments,
including Sudan, Libya, Iraq and Iran.
"We look at them as allies, not necessarily as friends," said Austin Ruse, founder
and president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a New York-based
organization that promotes conservative values at U.N. social conferences. "We have
realized that without countries like Sudan, abortion would have been recognized as a
universal human right in a U.N. document."
The alliance of conservative Islamic states and Christian organizations has placed the
Bush administration in the awkward position of siding with some of its most reviled
adversaries -- including Iraq and Iran -- in a cultural skirmish against its closest European
allies, which broadly support expanding sexual and political rights. ...
okay, the lede may not be the most transparent, and it might be somewhat misleading,
but what the heck is wrong with this world? i am a christian, a fairly fundamentalist kind
of one, as well, but i am ALL FOR women's, gay's and kid's rights. and all my christian
friends are as well. sure i would never get an abortion but to paraphrase a friend: leave
morality to the church and give us our freedom. and what did kids ever do?!
maybe this is one of those articles the post writes to get us all riled up. i think they do
that every once in a while.
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bubbly and lovely: i'm too poor for therapy.
