LGBT agenda advances, drives wedge in UN system
The UN Human Rights Council narrowly adopted a resolution establishing the position of “independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” with 22 votes in favor, 19 against, and 6 abstentions. The independent expert will be the first official focus point for promoting special new LGBT rights at the United Nations. His reports and statements will not be binding and only suggestions for states. Up until recently such a post was thought impossible. The ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on a gay club in Orlando last month ramped up the pressure to support the proposal, out of sympathy for the victims. Observers of the vote in Geneva spoke of the “Orlando Effect.” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, meeting with a select group of ambassadors at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village, boasted that U.S. diplomats were able to pressure states to get out of the way of the LGBT agenda at the U.N. The UN Security Counci