I just received some very positive news in an email  from my friend Andy Harley at UK Gay News:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the Obama administration will sign a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that President George W. Bush had refused to endorse.
U.S. officials said Tuesday they had notified the French sponsors of the declaration that the administration wants to be added as a supporter of the declaration. The Bush administration was criticized in December when it was the only Western government that refused to sign.
The officials said the administration had decided to sign the declaration to demonstrate that the United States supports human rights for all around the world.
If you’ve followed the coverage here (click on the blue UN flag to your left), you’re aware that former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and the Bush administration opposed the UN declaration for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. In so doing, they joined 86 countries that still imprison GLBT people for the crime of being who they are, and, in a handful of these countries, our GLBT brothers and sisters still face torture and execution.
The times, as they say, are, finally, a changing.
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There’s something blowin’ in the wind… fetch me my diet pill, would ya hon?
(oops, sorry, had a Divine moment there)
But how nice that the U.S. is finally joining the civilized world. About 20 years late, but better late then never I guess.
Now if the US can just exert a little influence around the world, and, of course, clean up its act at home with regard to GLBT equality …