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Thursday August 3, 2006
UN Rejects Extreme Homosexual Groups' Application for Official NGO Status
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By Terry Vanderheyden
UNITED NATIONS, August 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com/C-FAM) – The United Nations has rejected the applications for official status of three homosexual Non-Governmental Organizations, despite heavy pressure from an international coalition of homosexual activist groups.
As reported by the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) today, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) rejected the applications for official UN consultative status from the Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians, the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany and the International Gay and Lesbian Association - Europe.
Late last month the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission submitted a petition signed by approximately 100 homosexual activist organizations to ECOSOC, requesting that they overturn a decision made earlier in the year by the UN Committee on NGOs that rejected the applications, according to C-FAM’s Samantha Singson.
ARC, a Canadian homosexual group headed by John Fisher spearheaded the campaign. Iran was instrumental in denying the application in January, its member arguing that the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) was denied NGO status in the past because of concerns over its ties to pedophilia. Iran said that now affiliates of the ILGA were applying and the same concerns applied.
ILGA gained consultative status with the ECOSOC in the summer of 1993 as a NGO, but was suspended in 1994, after it was revealed that pro-pedophilia groups had membership within the organization. NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association, which, among other activities, works to remove age of consent laws to allow sexual access to children, was associated with ILGA.
In 1985, nine years earlier, ILGA had passed a resolution stating, “Young people have the right to sexual and social self-determination and …age of consent laws often operate to oppress and not to protect”.
The representative from the Holy See meanwhile commented, “What ILGA and its proponents are asking is not for equal rights but special rights; special rights that allow others a leeway for a discreet suppression of moral distinctions in choices and behavior that are of vital concern to the international community and the international order. Gay rights laws and the demand for special rights as well impose one view of sexual morality - sexual relativism – on all peoples and then enforce this code of morality on constituents of other groups holding other beliefs and legislations.”
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Vatican to United Nations: "Sexual Orientation Is Not Comparable To Race or Ethnic Origin"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06053102.html
United States Backs UN NGO Status for Homosexual Activist Groups Once Associated with Pedophiles
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06051902.html
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