Among the world’s ongoing grave humanitarian crises and an increase in geopolitical tensions, the United Nations has taken to social media to tell us that men can be lesbians.
In celebration of “lesbian visibility”, the UN Human Rights Office posted on X that “trans lesbians are lesbians” along with several graphics showcasing lesbian women and “transgender lesbians” being affectionate towards one another. Hundreds of X users, many of them pro-lesbian, flooded the comments section criticizing the UN for denying biological reality and altering the term “lesbian” to include males.
Less than a month ago, the same UN held a “Summit of the Future”, hoping to reestablish its reputation as a relevant and trustworthy institution.
It should be noted that the UN Human Rights Office reflects the values and vision of the UN bureaucracy, and not necessarily of UN member states. Not all UN bureaucrats welcome those radical views, but many of them, including the Secretary-General and those who run human rights programs, certainly do.
The Office portrays itself as working to “promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),” yet no UN treaty recognizes the notion of “sexual orientation and gender identity”, let alone sex-change and transgender rights. Whenever references to sexual orientation and gender identity come up in negotiations, they create controversy and division among countries.
Brett Schaefer, Senior Research Fellow at Heritage Foundation, argues the UDHR is “under assault…[by] so-called UN human rights defenders who seek to expand the number of human rights and distort its interpretations in ways never envisioned by those who drafted the UDHR.”
In her 2002 book A World Made New, Mary Ann Glendon recounts that at the drafting of the Declaration in 1947, the atmosphere was “embroiled in philosophical debates.” At the time, UNESCO had established a philosophers’ committee that gathered reflections from “Chinese, Islamic, Hindu, and customary law perspectives, as well as from American, European, and socialist point of view” to determine different countries’ understanding of human rights and help advance a Declaration that drew on ideals common to all.
To everyone’s surprise, they succeed. Regrettably, such intellectual undertakings and respect for other cultures are distant memories at the UN.
The UN Secretariat and its agencies have adopted a progressive globalist philosophy that is far from universal and yet continues to drive most of its policies and programs.
In his recent address to the UN, President Javier Milei of Argentina said the UN is “departing from its original mandate of ensuring world peace towards a ‘Leviathan’ system deciding how people should live their lives.”
That no binding UN treaty includes language on sexual orientation and gender identity is proof that, at least on human sexuality, such a vision is far from being universal. UN agencies and affluent Western countries are working hard to integrate such verbiage everywhere they can, including in UN resolutions. Nevertheless, many member states and permanent observers, including Russia, Egypt, the Holy See, Belarus, Nigeria, and the Philippines, consistently oppose it.
Using demeaning rhetoric such as “pushback on women’s rights” and “anti-rights groups,” to refer to Member States and civil society organizations that hold traditional views on family structures and human sexuality has become a norm at the UN. Despite such conservative and traditional beliefs being consistent with a reasonable reading of the UDHR, the insults go so far as linking them with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, insinuating that their views are but a softer approach of the same anti-women, anti-progress ideology.
Delegates who stand up for a traditional family and oppose the progressive gender ideology are looked down upon by their diplomat counterparts as backward, narrow-minded, and unsophisticated. Some of them joined the Group of the Friends of the Family to unite around their common worldview, despite facing a well-coordinated and well-resourced opposition that includes the richest countries in the world.
On the very rare occasions that conservative voices are given a platform at official UN meetings to discuss social policy, they are grilled by powerful countries and their legitimacy as UN officials are seriously questioned.
Reem Alsalem, for example, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, published a report saying that men should not compete in women’s sports. When she presented her report at the UN, the US diplomat accused her of being transphobic and contributing to harm towards transgender people. Other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and France, baffled at Alsalem’s recommendations, criticized her on similar grounds.
The UN is increasingly reminiscent of a high school cafeteria where the cool kids dictate and enforce their ways through bullying and intimidation tactics. It may be worth reflecting upon Glendon’s account of Franklin Roosevelt’s assurance in 1943 that this new project that was to become the UN would indeed have “no interest…in Allied domination over other nations: ‘The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies–we reject it.’”
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A tool for Satan if there ever was one. An it’s supposed Catholic secretary general is a waste of time!
The U.N. has well-exceeded its usefulness. It should be a telling reminder to us Catholics that gross and egregious violations of the principle of subsidiarity are eerily dangerous. But, alas, man, being the fallen creature he is and who continually moves away from the Source of all that is Good, persists in building towers that reflect his own sinful pride. Unredeemed man never seems to get it.
The UN is no longer relevant. It is more concerned in promoting the woke, godless agenda of its superbillionaire donors & the WEF. It has been bullying, together with the IMF & WB, USaid, Third World countries to accept its woke, godless agenda & enforce this legally with the full force of laws, in exchange for access to financial facilities, loans, & assistance. So far, some African countries & the Philippines refuse to comply. But how long will politicians in these countries be able resist the lure of money (& bribes).
The UN is obviously an anti-Christ organization.
The Our Father clearly calls the Church to build the reign of Christ the King.
Pulling the plug on the Our Father, post-conciliar Ecumenical New Church prepared occident for this catastrophe; this is not the fault of the UN, but Vatican II.
It is the logical outcome of throwing in the towel on the social reign of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the name of aggiornamento.
There ya go – world war III now prevented!
WW3 already happened 1962-1965 according to Mgr Marcel Lefebvre. It was a war on Catholic Tradition, leaving most churche sanctuaries destroyed and the faithful desolate.
Surely you jest.
So if a man transitions to a woman, he can still be attracted to women and considered to be a lesbian…got it…🤣
I know you meant to say “pretends to be a woman…”, right? A man can’t “transition” to a woman…let’s not sound insane like they do…
LOL!
Another win for the patriarchy!
When you deny that God, The Ordered Communion Of Perfect Love, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, Is The Author Of Love, Of Life, And Of Marriage, and thus The Author of our unalienable Right to Life, to Liberty, and to The Pursuit of Happiness, the purpose of which is what God intended, and render onto Caesar, or oneself, what has always and will always belong to God, anything can become permissible, including the destruction of a beloved son or daughter residing in their mother’s womb.
The U.N. has merely become the voice of the atheist materialist over population alarmist globalists, and thus those who are anti Christ, The Word Of The True God Incarnate.
No one can serve for The Common Good while denying the essence of Love which is Life-affirming and Life-sustaining.
Was this an exercise to see how many clauses one can put into a sentence so no one can folllow it?
The Catholic church has been instrumental in this movement for years.. The Catholic Worker, St Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan, has policies that make Father Jimmy Martin look holy. Its disgusting, were are the men and woman speaking, where are the fellowship meetings after Mass to discuss this abomination.. Nobody really cares, tradionalist stay in their little ” privilege” chapels mostly white, looking down on everyone and waiting to go to heaven.
As a traditionalist, I challenge you to name one person I ever looked down upon in my entire life in spite of my many faults. Just one. Anyone. And I demand to know how you came to such a conclusion after you conclude that you can’t name one.
God Bless you, if you don’t see it you will not listen.. How about organizing a meeting, after Mass in your church/ chapel to discuss and actively combat these issues
The Church has pushed this agenda for nearly a century. The Catholic Worker, St. Francis Xavier church in Manhattan, has everything you could possibly think about Lesbians, even Fr. Jimmy Martin would be enlightend.
where are the men and woman meeting after Mass on Sunday’s to combat this evil.. The tradionalist don’t care they stay in their private predominately white chapels praying about heaven.
Our UN Overlords have spoken!
So if Pope Francis is committed to appointing pro-trans Bishops, shouldn’t these Bishops be committed to ordaining male lesbians?💋. (Not that this fully resolves the Synodaling desire for a flat church with women in authority.)
Trump, once President again,should stop contributions to the UN.
The speech at the customary Catholic Al Smith dinner in NYC presided by the Cardinal by DT is worth watching. DT addresses this and other related topics. Hilarious. It starts at minute 2:50 The one on Kamala Harris being absent because she was taking Communion from Michigan governor Whitmer is hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAwbHmrplak
What’s all the uproar about new stuff? After all, so to speak, “time is greater than space.”
And then there’s the American ivory-tower precedent, first posed at Harvard University (surprise!), lo, already over a century ago. In the Harvard Law Review (1895) Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. already set the tone for ersatz legal invention when he wrote:
“. . . I often doubt whether it would not be a gain if every word of moral significance could be banished from the law altogether. . . .” Earlier, he had written: “I think that the sacredness of human life is a purely municipal idea of no validity outside the jurisdiction” (Mark de Wolfe, ed., The Pollock-Holmes Letters, 1874-1932, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1942, Vol. 2, p. 36).
So, why not gay “marriage,” or now even the U.N.’s kitchen-blender sexuality, or maybe soon polygamy or the neighbors dog–assuming mutual consent, of course.
Re Johannes above – My thought exactly. Who’s funding this drivel?
Attention, UN: The meme, “Help, I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body!” was intended as a joke, not an instruction manual.