I mean, I figure if we're going to live in a theocracy, might as well get some of the fun parts, too, right? You know it's a good day for the Bush administration when they stand proudly with Iran. What was it George said? About a year ago? “As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you.” Unless you're bending or kneeling for liberty, then America kicks you in the teeth, ya dirty queermo. It must have sent John Bolton into conniptions trying to decide who he can't stand more. From today's Progress Report:

“In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people,” according to a Human Rights Watch release. In May 2005, two international gay rights groups applied for consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, “the only official means by which non-governmental organizations around the world can influence and participate in discussions among member states at the United Nations. Nearly 3,000 groups enjoy this status. States opposed to the two groups' applications moved to have them summarily dismissed, an almost unprecedented move at the UN, where organizations are ordinarily allowed to state their cases.” On Monday, the Bush administration joined Cameroon, China, Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan, and Zimbabwe — nations with some of the worst human rights records in the world — in voting to reject the groups' applications.



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