In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, a coalition of 39 organizations, led by the Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called for an explanation of the vote which aligned the United States with governments that have long repressed the rights of sexual minorities. “This vote is an aggressive assault by the U.S. government on the right of sexual minorities to be heard,” said Scott Long, director of the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch. “It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic.” (Read more)

Thanks again, Bush regime. What’s that you say, family in Texas? You say that I should come visit on a regular basis because Texans and the GOP embrace the rights of everyone? ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR (OK what they actually said was individual gays are fine, its just a GROUP of them that they don’t like.)

Thanks for pointing this out, Kniwt.