The Bush administration has joined forces with U.S. Conservative Christian organizations and Militant Islamic governments to halt the international expansion of protections for gays, women and children at United Nations conferences.
The alliance between the Bush administration and militant Islamic states has placed Bush in the awkward position of siding with the same states he has often characterised as an "axis of evil". Many of these countries are known to sponsor terrorisim against US targets. But in many U.N. conferences on the rights of women, children and homosexuals, the Bush administration is now joining forces with these same countries and against close U.S. allies in Europe, which support expanding sexual and political rights.
Mokhtar Lamani, a Moroccan diplomat who represents the 53-nation Organization of Islamic Conferences at the United Nations, said; "The main issue that brings us all together is defending the family values, the natural family. The Republican administration is so clear in defending the family values." He added that liberal Western governments had offended the religious and cultural sensitivities of Islamic countries by proposing that a final conference declaration include, among other things, a reference to the need to protect "men who have sex with men" from contracting AIDS.
Adrienne Germaine, president of the International Women's Health Coalition, said; "This alliance shows the depths of perversity of the [U.S.] position. On the one hand we're presumably blaming these countries for unspeakable acts of terrorism, and at the same time we are allying ourselves with them in the oppression of women."
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