Bush Admin Equates Gay Rights Groups With Pedophilia

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State Department spokesman Edgar Vasquez said Friday: "The United States continues to implement a law requiring certification by the United Nations to prohibit funding of NGOs that condone pedophilia. The United States as a policy matter remains concerned about support for pedophilia, and we believe that ILGA must establish a verifiable process to ensure that neither it nor its member organizations promote or condone pedophilia".

Once again, government officials hide their rabid homophobia behind the vicious and heinous presumption that all gay men are pedophiles.

Okay, my gentle snowflakes, let's review some of the relevant history, excerpted from the Wikipedia:

• In the summer of 1993, the ILGA gained consultative status on the ECOSOC
  
• In 1994, their status was suspended when the notoriously homophobic prick Jesse Helms led a crusade against the ILGA, based on NAMBLA's membership in that organization
  
• At that time, the IGLA, by a vote of 214-30, expelled NAMBLA and two other groups that "promoted or condoned pedophilia."
  

So, the ILGA has taken demonstrable steps to address these concerns and yet their repeated attempts to be reinstated have been denied. Opponents objected on the grounds that they believe the organization has not provided sufficient evidence to prove that these pedophile groups have been removed from its membership roster.

Essentially, the ILGA has refused to provide UN officials with a list of its member organizations.

Let's see -- the countries that oppose the ILGA in this situation are also those that criminalize homosexual behavior. Iran, for example, executed two gay teens in the city of Mashad back in July of 2005.

Release its list of member organizations to these monsters? No fucking way.


see also:

• U.S. Aligned With Iran
  
• IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS
  

tags: IGLA, Edgar Vasquez, United Nations, Iran, Jesse Helms