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Considering who also sided with us we are not in good company.
It was a capital punishment vote not gay death penalty vote.
The Trump administration’s vote is nothing new — presidents from both parties have long objected to U.N. resolutions critical of capital punishment. In December 2016, for example — in the final weeks of Obama’s presidency — the U.S. voted against a resolution urging states not to execute minors, pregnant women, and the intellectually disabled.
It was a capital punishment vote not gay death penalty vote.
The Trump administration’s vote is nothing new — presidents from both parties have long objected to U.N. resolutions critical of capital punishment. In December 2016, for example — in the final weeks of Obama’s presidency — the U.S. voted against a resolution urging states not to execute minors, pregnant women, and the intellectually disabled.
That is the thing. The media will spin everything to the point if it makes Trump look bad.
The vibe on TV is that Trump is a bumbling idiot Nazi, Racist, Hater that can't tie his own shoes. Of course the vibe for Obama was that he was the great savior of the planet and the one man who could redeem even the Deplorables if only they would give up the Constitution.
The vibe on the street is one thing but History will show that both Trump and Obama did some good things and some not so good.
We might all be better off if the media was to go away.
"On 29 September 2017, the United States was one of 13 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against a resolution asking countries in which the death penalty is legal to ensure it is not applied “arbitrarily or in a discriminatory manner” or imposed to punish specific forms of conduct such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery, and consensual same-sex relations. "
"On 29 September 2017, the United States was one of 13 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against a resolution asking countries in which the death penalty is legal to ensure it is not applied “arbitrarily or in a discriminatory manner” or imposed to punish specific forms of conduct such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery, and consensual same-sex relations. "
Did you even READ the resolution ? Or did you just rely on the MSM to cherry pick and convince you otherwise ? The link to the resolution is right there in the snopes article.
Gays are only part of it. The resolution is about the death penalty in general.
From the UN resolution linked in the Snopes article:
"Taking note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the question of the death
penalty, in the latest of which the Secretary-General examined the disproportionate impact
of the use of the death penalty on poor or economically vulnerable individuals, foreign
nationals, individuals exercising the rights to freedom of religion or belief and freedom of
expression, and the discriminatory use of the death penalty against persons belonging to
racial and ethnic minorities, its discriminatory use based on gender or sexual orientation,
and its use against individuals with mental or intellectual disabilities,"
"On 29 September 2017, the United States was one of 13 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against a resolution asking countries in which the death penalty is legal to ensure it is not applied “arbitrarily or in a discriminatory manner” or imposed to punish specific forms of conduct such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery, and consensual same-sex relations. "
It was an anti death penalty vote. Why don't you read the actual resolution they were voting on not the MSM headlines. Countries that are pro death penalty voted against this.
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It was a capital punishment vote not gay death penalty vote.
The Trump administration’s vote is nothing new — presidents from both parties have long objected to U.N. resolutions critical of capital punishment. In December 2016, for example — in the final weeks of Obama’s presidency — the U.S. voted against a resolution urging states not to execute minors, pregnant women, and the intellectually disabled.
According to the cited article: " The Human Rights Council resolution condemned the “imposition of the death penalty as a sanction for specific forms of conduct, such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and consensual same-sex relations”
That sounds specific and not against capital punishment in general.
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