There is only ONE important issue this election

And it has nothing to do with € 145 billion (+/-), or job creation, or any of that other boring stuff.

Oh no.

Grafton street this morning:

In the midst of putting up the ‘Labortion’ posters, they seem to have remembered that there is indeed another important issue:

The ‘Labortion’ party wants marriage equality too!

That allowing gay people to marry is bad is seemingly self-explanatory, so they just slapped up a piece of an article.

Next week’s slogan: ‘A vote for Labour is a vote for Satan.’

Tagged: Abortion, Anti-choice, LGBT, Marriage equality, Politics, Pro-life

UN removes LGBT from list of groups vulnerable to discriminatory killings

A reference to sexual orientation on a list of discriminatory grounds on which killings are often based was removed from a UN Resolution last week.

The resolution on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions aims to highlight groups of people who are specifically targeted for killings. Sexual orientation has been on the list since 1999, but was removed after a vote in the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly November 16th.

Removing this reference means that sexual orientation is no longer one of the grounds of discriminatory killings on which states are called on to protect and investigate.

Benin proposed the amendment based on the following statement :

sexual orientation [has] no legal foundation in any international human rights instruments and there [is] no legal justification to highlight it

The amendment was passed with 79 states for and 70 states against (see list here).

Recognition of the vulnerability of LGBT people in many countries is now considerably weakened, and many human rights and LGBT organisations including the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Watch have expressed worry and anger about the situation.

Tagged: LGBT, UN, Violence

What a sweet and adorable old man

Photo from washingtontimes.com

President of the Croatian Football Federation, Vlatko Markovic, has said that as long as he’s president of the federation, ‘there will be no homosexuals playing on the national team’.

Asked whether he had ever met a gay soccer player, he replied; ‘luckily, only normal people play football’.

Now would probably be a good time to retire, Mr. Markovic….

Tagged: Discrimination, LGBT, Sport