the UN General Assembly
Recently from the queer tubes of the internets:
- One of the scientists sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the HIV virus said on the weekend that he believes there will be a therapeutic vaccine to treat it within five years. Luc Montagnier said in Sweden he believes it is ''a matter of four to five years".
- Wednesday was International Human Rights Day, and the United Nations brought a resolution up for (nonbinding) vote, asking for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality. Eighty-six countries in the world still criminalize gay sex with punishments from years of imprisonment to death. Gay activists did not remain silent, protesting at the Vatican and in the U.S., among other places.
New Jersey should enact a law allowing gay marriage and waste no time passing it because the state's civil unions law fails to adequately protect same-sex couples, the final report of the New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission, to be released today concludes.- According to the most recent issue (and cover story) of Newsweek, "Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But what the Bible teaches about love argues for the other side."
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I think the thing that makes the UN resolution even more interesting is that the USA WON'T sign on to it.
ReplyDelete39 days until Bush and his US Ambassador to the UN (Zalmay Khalilzad) are out!