A Dark Day For The United Nations

Extra Judicial Killings and Justice. Defined on Wikipedia as, "punishment by the state or some other official authority without the permission of a court or legal authority. The existence of extrajudicial punishment is considered proof that some governments will break their own legal code if deemed necessary."

If this report on the BBC is true then the last two paragraphs read...

Meanwhile, another high-profile global institution, the United Nations, has recently voted to take an unequivocally backward step. Every two years it draws up and passes a resolution calling for states to eliminate extra-judicial killings motivated by race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, language or other identifying characteristics.

In the past, sexual orientation has been on that list. This year, the phrase was dropped. An amendment to that effect was passed by 79 votes to 70. It was proposed by Benin, the chair of the African group of nations, supported by Morocco on behalf of the Islamic conference . The nature of change is not always in the direction of progress.

You would expect something like this in the Middle East, but for the United Nations to effectively sanction being killed simply because of your sexual orientation (by dint of ceasing their position that it should be banned) is an outrage. It is against all right and freedom.

I've sent correspondence to the United Nations. We'll see what comes back.