What?!! Really!!

Here is Argentine ambassador Jorge Arguello, presenting a gay rights declaration to the UN General Assembly, signed by a third of the world's UN member-countries. "We urge states to take all the necessary measures, in particular legislative or administrative, to ensure that sexual orientation or gender identity may under no circumstances be the basis for criminal penalties, in particular executions, arrests or detention."

This appeal was constructed in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which outlines in Article One that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." Every member country of the United Nations has signed on to that Universal Declaration, effectively acquiescing to the values and the rights elucidated in that signal document.

Yet it's the usual travesty of reality coming bang-up against purported assent that takes place regularly within the hallowed sanctuary of the United Nations. Where, although all member countries claim to distinguish themselves by the recognition of their human rights obligations, many regularly practise the most vicious human-rights violations within their countries through government practise.

Despite which, seldom does the body utter a single world of condemnation against well-known human rights states-violators. Even when such an egregious and startling statement as the intent of one member country to destroy the physical presence of another in its entirety is voiced in the General Assembly, calm and the pretense of dignity, allied with the facade of diplomacy prevail.

So that, while 66 countries gathered their diplomatic and ethical-moral resources to sign on to the gay rights declaration, they represent but a portion of the 192 member countries, some of which practise a strange type of human rights protection against their populations through which homosexuality may be punished by a death sentence. Representing as a true inconvenience in the chamber of human rights protection.

However, the stand to decriminalize homosexuality is rejected by some surprising, and some unsurprising national entities. Overwhelmingly, it is rejected by the Vatican. How's that? The religious body responsible for the spiritual and moral well-being of well over a billion people throughout the world, condemns unequivocally people whose sexual orientation is not approved by them. It will not support decriminalization.

Yet in the Arab world of Islamic dictates against the disgusting scourge of homosexuality, where the Koran recommends dire punishments to correct or expunge the malefactor, there was not an overwhelming rejection; rather the position was said to have been rejected by several Arab countries.

Now there's progress for you.