“The sexual behavior of men can be a form of violence against women because it can result in pregnancy,” stated an official of the U.N. Secretariat earlier this week during negotiations at the annual U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), at which the U.N.’s typical loopiness has abounded.
The New York Times got into the game this week with an unsigned editorial claiming the Holy See, Iran and Russia are “trying to eliminate language in a draft communiqué asserting that the familiar excuses—religion, custom, tradition—cannot be used by governments to duck their obligations to eliminate violence.”
The Times accuses this “Unholy Alliance” of being indifferent to violence against women and of using religion to protect wife-beaters, reminding us that, “The efforts by the Vatican and Iran to control women are well known.”
Yet the claim that these groups are seeking to strip protections from women “is a flat-out lie,” as one person close to the negotiations told me. In fact what is happening is the Holy See and her allies are blocking proposals by the U.S. and E.U. that would be used to promote a right to abortion.
The U.S. and E.U. also are pushing language calling for comprehensive sexuality education covering the farthest frontiers of sexuality. Another of their goals is striking down sovereignty language that protects governments from marauding Western lawyers seeking to impose their views on traditional peoples.
If there is no document this year, blame falls squarely on the U.S., the E.U., and their allies, who are trying to use this process to advance their objectionable ideas.
March 13th, 2013 | 12:21 pm
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March 13th, 2013 | 12:58 pm
I wish it were different, but demagoguery has become a standard American political tactic. If someone disagrees with you, you claim they are evil (e.g. “unholy” or “bigoted”) or at least immoral.
March 13th, 2013 | 2:11 pm
Is there a link to the exact language the Varican opposes? Does the Vatican propose any alternatives?
March 13th, 2013 | 11:40 pm
I am sick and tired of DC politicians trying to force everyone else to accept their bigoted ideas of homosexuality on everyone else, most of whom find it repugnant. Then they call you names if you don’t accept gay marriage and preferentila treatment for gays – i.e., making the murder of a gay person a special “hate crime”, while murderers of everyone else are treated much more leniently.
That is what this UN “human rights” bill is all about – not only forcing abortion on everyone, but forcing homosexuality and gay “marriage” on everyone.
March 14th, 2013 | 2:12 pm
We all need to accept reality. Some people do not believe in God. We, therefore, must be able to tailor our conversations in a way that they will listen to what we have to say.
That is not to say we deny God.
But, in this kind of a situation, we need to be persuasive in our argument with reasons that even a secularist can understand. We believers know that God made us and that his instructions are quite clear He doesn’t need us to shout “God say’s, God say’s, God say’s” every time we confront evil and ignorance because he has provided us with nature and the laws therein.
We can speak those words very clearly by pointing out the facts of nature and the observable world. And that is what we must not be afraid to say: “You are wrong because you physical body says so.”
We may carry in our hearts the understanding of judgement, but for non-believers that is a “non-starter.” Please, Truth IS in reason.
March 16th, 2013 | 8:57 am
1) the article ends with a statement that the US & EU have “objectionable ideas”, like what, exactly? Equality? Personal freedoms regardless of gender or sexual orientation or race?
2) Karen, excellent comment.
3) Hananova, no, I don’t think abortions are being “forced” on anyone, at all. The murder of a gay person which had nothing to do with their sexuality is a regular murder, the murder of a person because of their sexuality or skin colour most certainly is a hate crime.
4) Joyfully. You talk about “facts of nature” and “observable evidence” just after claiming we were made by god. That’s ironic. Observable evidence and facts of nature provide irrefutable proof we are the product of evolution. 100%.
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