Homophobic nations win at UN on SameSame.com.au

Homophobic nations win at UN on SameSame.com.au
The United Nations has voted to remove sexual orientation from a list of identifying characteristics which make people vulnerable to hate-based executions, a move which has shocked and angered LGBT campaigners.
With many African or Arabic countries where homosexuality is illegal voting to support the change, it passed 79-70.
Stalwart gay equality campaigner Peter Tatchell said it was a shameful day in the UN’s history.
“It gives a de facto green light to the on-going murder of LGBT people by homophobic regimes, death squads and vigilantes,” he observes. “They will take comfort from the fact that the UN does not endorse the protection of LGBT people against hate-motivated violence and murder.
“The UN vote is in direct defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees equal treatment, non-discrimination and the right to life. What is the point of the UN if it refuses to uphold its own humanitarian values and declarations?”
This vote is partly the result of a disturbing homophobic alliance between mostly African and Arab states, he points out. “LGBT people in these countries often suffer severe persecution.”
South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Uganda, Iran and Iraq were among the nations which supported the change, while Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States opposed it.
Many LGBT human rights organisations, pundits and lobby groups have also expressed their shock and outrage at the UN decision, worrying that it could lead to more executions in particularly homophobic countries where gay lives are at risk.

It took us centuries to evolve and in a short space of time we went a several decades back.
Just hope our children do not have to go back to the dark ages or the caves. So sad, humanity is not evolving or even revolving.