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 at U.N. against Gays, Women Sex-Negative Religionists Allied and Setting Global Policies Anti-Abortionists Appointed by Bush to USA's Delegations |
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By Jack Nichols
The alliance has sprung into existence within the past year. Conservative Christian appointees have been influential in its creation, having taken key positions on American delegations at conferences that influence social and economic policies worldwide. These conservative Christians are demonstrating, therefore, how fundamentalists' social policies endemic in homophobic and misogynistic Muslim societies, are also favored by the American patriarchy's multitudinous "Christian" zealots. Abortion, said the president of the U.S.-based Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, would have been touted as a universally acceptable norm had it not been for his crusading alliance with the Sudan through their posts at the United Nations. "The alliance of conservative Islamic states and Christian organizations," says Colum Lynch in the Washington Post "has placed the Bush administration in the awkward position of siding with some of its most reviled adversaries - including Iraq and Iran - in a cultural skirmish against its closest European allies, which broadly support expanding sexual and political rights." A Muslim representative, Mokhtar Lamani, reflected in the Post's report on the fact that Muslims and America's conservative Christians seem otherwise unlikely allies. He said: "The main issue that brings us all together is defending the family values, the natural family." In both the Christian and Muslim fundamentalist theologies, "the natural family" is code for their particular theories of male domination, a gender-based hierarchical system that must be seen to hold fast in both the public sphere and the home/boudoir.
The new Bush-backed alliance, therefore, hopes to reverse landmark U.N. agreements on women's rights and family planning that were reached in the last decade. |
United Nations-Conservative anti-abortionist Christians appointed by George Bush to American delegations at the United Nations are now in cahoots with a block of some fifty Islamic governments. The purpose of this alliance is to prevent the expansion of equal rights for gays, women and children.
