US aligned with "axis of evil" . .

[mzteris]

'Bigotry Conquers All,' Gay Rights Groups Say of U.S. Vote at UN

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WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 29 (OneWorld) - The governments of the United States and Iran--part of President George W. Bush's ''axis of evil'' and his current nuclear bete noire--demonstrated rare unity of cause this past week when Washington backed a Tehran initiative to deny UN access to advocates of sexual minorities' rights . . . ''It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran, and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic,'' Long said.

Rights advocates said the Bush administration's international posture matched its increasingly strident and discriminatory bent at home. Religiously and socially extremist elements of the U.S. population and among Bush's supporters--to whom many pundits attributed the president's 2004 re-election-- have been increasingly loud and militant over the past year, according to human
rights activists.

. . . The federal government's UN vote to dismiss two international organizations' applications for speaking rights at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) brought the U.S. government in line with regimes it routinely chides as human rights delinquents, HRW said. These include the leaders of Cameroon, China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.


. . .Some 40 groups joined the rights watchdog Wednesday in signing a letter demanding that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice account for the turnaround. ''Is it now the policy of the U.S. government to oppose consultative status for all organizations working to promote the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people?'' the letter asks. "As U.S.-based organizations working in the fields of human rights and sexual rights, we are dismayed--and we expect better,'' it concludes . . . Matt Foreman, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's executive director: ''It is deeply disturbing that the self-proclaimed leader of the free world will ally with bigots at the drop of a hat to advance the right wing's anti-gay agenda.''

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0130-07.htm

[AntiFascist]

1. A taste of things to come n/t

[mzteris]

2. do you think

fundamentalists see the irony that they are agreeing with fundamentalists of different religions that they villify for their beliefs??

[AntiFascist]

3. Could it be even worse than that?

What if they want us to go to war against Islam and then we have to end up all agreeing what type of "Sharia Law" that we will then answer to? They do all seem to be united in their hatred of homosexuals.

[mzteris]

4. **They do all seem to be united in their hatred of homosexuals.**

and women.

Which all relates back to fears about their own (perceived/feared) inadequacies. . .