…if you don’t read international and Christian news sources, you probably didn’t know that last week the UN Human Rights Council passed The Protection of the Family resolution. Not surprisingly, the mainstream U. S. media ignored the story.
The resolution, approved by a vote of 27 to 14, urges member states to adopt laws and policies that support the family””yes, the family””definite article. It calls the family, “the natural environment for the growth and well-being of all its members and particularly children.”
It goes on to insist that while governments have a place in protecting the human rights of all, “the family has primary responsibility for the nurturing and protection of children.”
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But sad to say it was the 14 dissenting nations””including most of Western Europe and the United States””that really pulled out the stops to defeat this resolution.
“[T]he United States lobbied [against it] with great energy,” says Slater, noting that pushing the LGBT agenda abroad has become a “primary objective of our nation’s foreign policy.” She even reports that our delegation threatened to withhold foreign aid to developing nations if they affirmed the natural family.
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Writing at “Touchstone,” Allan Carlson notes how under the Obama Administration, “threats, bribes, and extortion” aimed at “vulnerable lands in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe” have become regular strategies in our quest to export the sexual revolution.
Were it not for the enthusiastic support of China and Russia””major powers that spent the latter half of the last century trying to eradicate the natural family””this resolution may have failed. China and Russia learned the hard way how destructive anti-family policies are. And maybe it’s just a coincidence, but both countries have seen a rapid growth of Christianity in recent years.
Folks, if there’s a wrong side of history, the United States of America is on it right now””at least when it comes to this issue. Thank God that despite bribery, bullying, and blackmail from the West, 27 nations voted to protect the family.
WOW. I try to keep up with the news, and I missed this. So incredible that we would lobby against this. How far we have fallen. I am deeply grieved by this news.
A genuine goal TEc can’t pursue as part of its attachment to the MDGs (remember those?) – “the UN Human Rights Council passed The Protection of the Family resolution”. Those who wed the spirit of the times soon find themselves widowed.
So the United States and the UK are on record as being opposed to “the natural family,” and they wonder why crime and drug abuse are on the rise.