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Homosexuality

19 August 2010: Mr. Westerwelle and Saudi Homophobia

27 April 2009: wsj.com: Westerwelle to cut on development aid for states that are persecuting gays

The FDP doesn't correspond to either major political party in the  U.S., but is typical of liberal parties in Europe, where the word  "liberal" denotes both free-market economics and left-leaning social  policies that stress diversity and tolerance.

The FDP, for instance, supports minority rights, higher immigration  and curtailing the state's powers of surveillance. Mr. Westerwelle, who would be Germany's first openly gay foreign minister, has said he would cut development aid to countries that persecute gays. But the position  that is winning the party new supporters is Mr. Westerwelle's attacks on the government for its high tax-and-spend policies.

Ms. Merkel, constrained by her coalition with the left-leaning Social Democrats, has made little progress in addressing middle-class  frustration with heavy taxes and bureaucracy. Her involvement in  increased state intervention in the economy during the current crisis,  including costly bailouts of banks and subsidies for Germany's  struggling auto makers, was the final straw for many middle-class voters and small-business owners, who now say they will vote for Mr. Westerwelle.

16 January 2009: Vatican Agency Reiterates Church's Condemnation of Homosexual Behavior

14 January 2009: EU Approves Resolution to Force Homosexual “Marriage” Acceptance in All Member States

20 December 2008: U.S. refuses to sign UN resolution decriminalizing homosexuality under Bush’s watch

2nd December 2008 (Zenit.org) Vatican opposes discrimination against homosexuals

Contrary to the way the media paints the picture, the Holy See is against the discrimination of homosexuals, clarified a Vatican spokesman.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, said this in response to Italian press reports on an interview with Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. The archbishop told a news agency that the Holy See would not support an expected French proposal for a U.N. resolution to decriminalize homosexuality. The prelate explained that the initiative could include at the same time the imposition of homosexual marriage in national law. Read more.

Now then, Father Lombardi continued, the proposed resolution from France does not seek solely the "decriminalization of homosexuality."

He explained: "Rather it moreover introduces a declaration of political value that could result in systems of control, according to which, every norm -- not only legal, but also related to the life of social or religious groups -- which does not place every sexual orientation on exactly the same level could be considered as contrary to respect of human rights.

"This could clearly become an instrument of pressure or discrimination against those who, just to put a very clear example, consider marriage between a man and a woman to be the fundamental and original form of social life, and as such, [believe] that it should have a privileged place."

Furthermore, the priest noted, the Vatican is hardly alone in rejecting the possible resolution.

"It is not coincidence that less that 50 member states of the United Nations have adhered to this proposal," he said, "while more than 150 have not. The Holy See is not the only one."

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