United Nations Rules Australia Must Provide Marriage Benefits to Homosexuals

SYDNEY, September 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations has confirmed once again that it is playing a large role in intentional efforts to undermine marriage and family life and the cultural and religious sovereignty of nations.  The U.N. Human Rights Commission released its decision today on a case of a homosexual man who attempted to claim a war veteran’s pension over the death of his male sexual partner Larry Cains.  After being refused the pension, homosexual activist Edward Young took the case to the United Nations in 1999.  The United Nations panel ruled that Australia did not provide a “reasonable and objective” argument on why heterosexual partners should be allowed the pension benefits and homosexual partners should not.  The committee ruled Australia in violation of Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Interestingly the article in question deals with equality rights but does not specifically include “sexual orientation” in its list of grounds of prohibited discrimination, but does include the catchall phrase “or other status.”  Australia has 90 days to respond to the ruling.  See the United Nations release on the ruling:  https://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/B2D753B2B50A38C5C1256D970044C974?opendocument