Pro-Family Lobby Wins at U.N.

     (FNIF - www.family.org/cforum/fnif) A United Nations committee refuses to declare homosexuality and abortion international human rights.

     Family advocates are celebrating a major victory from a recent meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights: the defeat of a resolution declaring homosexuality and abortion international human rights.

     Several nations lobbied for classifying "alternate lifestyles" and abortion as protected rights, but in the end morality prevailed.

     "The overall impression was that the immoral agenda of the deviants was not a good thing for humanity and for human beings generally," said Dr. Farooq Hassan, a U.N. diplomat and former member of the commission. "I think President Bush's personal intervention in this matter has been a great help, and there's no doubt that the weight the Untied States has put behind this entire agenda (helped)."

     The victory is important, Focus on the Family United Nations representative Thomas Jacobson said, because the commission's decisions carry a lot of weight.

     "If sexual orientation became an international human right," he explained, "then there would be pressure applied through the U.N. upon nations to remove their laws prohibiting sodomy."

     In fact, it's already happening in the United States.

     "Even the Supreme Court . . . based the decision in Lawrence v. Texas (which struck down a Texas sodomy statute) on a European Human Rights court decision that was a bad decision," Jacobson said.

     Both sides in the debate, he added, are preparing to renew the battle over the status of homosexuality and abortion at next year's Commission on Human Rights meeting.

By: Steve Jordahl
Source: Family News in Focus
Publish Date: April 29, 2004