• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    LGBT rights are human rights.

    No. Human rights are human rights. They predate the LGBT movement by at least two decades. And while there’s nothing in there that would deprive LGBT individuals from any essential liberties, I’ve noticed at least two items that many of them seem to take issue with:

    Article 16.3: The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

    Article 20.2: No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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      4 hours ago

      The fact that you cited that article specifically tells me a lot about what you believe a family should be. I dream of a world in which “family values” is not a code word for “queer people fuck off”, or at least not so universally one that fuckwads infer the latter from a UN document stating that parents and their children deserve state protection from groups that would try to separate them.

      Additionally, if you think being homosexual in general, or worse, believing that homosexual people should not be prosecuted for being so, constitutes belonging to an organization, I do not know what to tell you.