Cormactopia Prime wrote:Celebrating Gay's history of LGBTQ+ advocacy, including the collaborative authorship of international legislation entitled "Gay Rights," the first such legislation to address the rights of LGBTQ+ people, passed by an international institution that predated the World Assembly;
NSUN Resolution #12*, like many early NSUN resolutions, were written by nations to the NSUN ("Presented... By the leader and representative of Genius," "We, the people of Kibombwe, propose that...", "the Democratic States of Austrivum... hereby submits a replacement document**"), behaviour which is prohibited nowadays in the WA. I'm assuming this is the case until you can find evidence that "the other peoples of the world wishing for the preservation of freedom and the respect of all" is actually a reference to other nations in Gay, as opposed to a general appeal-to-heaven, especially given that Gay was still only
numbering a dozen nations by the end of May 2003 (when NSUN Resolution #12 was passed).
In fact, I'll be kind enough to give you a short rundown of anti-homophobia*** proposals in the NSUN between the passage and repeal of Gay Rights, and a wee bit beyond that - not only did other resolutions make it useless, but it probably wasn't even the first resolution to protect homosexuality as an action. Yes, it did pioneer gay marriage protection, but another resolution was already doing that when Kenny set about striking NSUN Res. #12 from the record:
- NSUN Res. #7 "Sexual Freedom," by Armstrongonia (March 2003). Holds that the business of two consenting adults in their own home is not the state's business, which automatically follows that homosexuality in private amongst consenting adults cannot be illegal. REPEALED BY NSUN RES. #206, on the grounds that NSUN Res. #192 "Sexual Privacy Act" did a better job at stating this (and also followed that homosexuality in private amongst consenting adults cannot be illegal).
- NSUN Res. #12 "Gay Rights," by Kundu (May 2003). Mandates the passage of national-scale anti-discrimination laws and gay marriage.
- NSUN Res. #26 "Universal Bill of Rights,"" by Free porcupines (August 2003). Article 4 gives "all human beings" the right to equal protection under the law.
- NSUN Res. #69 "The Sexes Rights Laws," by Komokom (August 2004). Reaffirmed Gay Rights, and held that all of the rights reserved between the sexes (including "equal benefits") were also to be held between the genders under section 5. Ergo, another strike against anti-gay discrimination.
- NSUN Res. #80 "Rights of Minorities and Women," by Amsterdam junior (November 2004). Article 4 states that "One should have the right to express their love for a member of the same sex." REPEALED BY NSUN RES. #228
- NSUN Res. #81 "Definition of Marriage," by Vastiva (November 2004). Re-emphasises that sex and gender cannot legally be barriers to marrying another UN member-state citizen. REPEALED BY NSUN RES. #173
- NSUN Res. #99 "Discrimination Accord," by Belgrade-beograd (April 2005). Claims that Gay Rights "does virtually nothing to protect citizens’ rights." Subsequently sets about actually doing something to protect citizens' rights.
- NSUN Res. #115 "Prisoners of Conscience," by Ecopoeia (August 2005). Takes significant steps towards freeing all people deliberately imprisoned for their homosexuality.
- NSUN Res. #118 "The Sex Education Act," by Love and Esterel (August 2005). Technically does not prohibit any homophobic or discriminatory behaviour, but requires that all member-states teach about homosexual relationships etc. "without any value judgment" in mandatory sex education courses for pupils.
- NSUN Res. #144 "Repeal "Gay Rights,"" by Omigodtheykilledkenny (February 2006). Recognises Gay Rights to be "superfluous and ineffective legislation," citing the passage of several further anti-discriminatory measures as outlined above.
- NSUN Res. #173 "Repeal "Definition of Marriage,"" by Sir ernest shackleton (August 2006). Condemns NSUN Res. #81's final line as being "an endorsement of beastiality."
- NSUN Res. #182 "Marriage Protection Act," by Witchcliff (October 2006). A replacement for the now-repealed NSUN Res. #81. Implies the reservation to member states of the right to allow or disallow gay marriage.
- NSUN Res. #228 "Repeal "Rights of Minorities and Women,"" by G l o g (November 2007). On all four articles of NSUN Res. #80, laments that "This not protect any rights." Like Repeal "Gay Rights," cites NSUN Res. #99 as sufficient enough protection against discrimination.
- THE WORLD ASSEMBLY, by Max Barry (April 2008): You are here. Under GA#35 "The Charter on Civil Rights," discrimination in marriage based on sexual orientation is prohibited. This is why GA#410 "Marriage Equality" was struck from the record almost instantly... and why GA#15 "Freedom of Marriage Act" ended up being repealed after spending a relatively more minuscule six-and-a-half years on the books.
*You are permitted to refer to the NSUN in proposals, even if only presumably as the NSUN acronym. c.f. the stickied Compendium, SC#10, and post-R4 SC#44 and 60.
**Back in the good old bad old NSUN days, one could also amend proposals, which might have contributed to Gay Rights being redundant... although not necessarily, I'm not
that old a fossil. Good examples: NSUN Res. #47 "Definition of 'Fair Trial" amended NSUN Res. #21 "Fair trial" to define under the latter statute what exactly a fair trial was. NSUN Res #58 "SPCC Regulation Act" was a self-declared "extention" of NSUN Res. #11 "Ban Single-Hulled Tankers."
***but not necessarily in the general anti-discrimination category, hence my omission of resolutions like NSUN Res. #25 "The Child Protection Act." I'm also emitting NSUN Res. #53 "Universal Freedom of Choice" - it seems to be more of an attack against subliminal advertising than homophobia.
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:45 am