The UN has not agreed yet that decriminalisation of sexual orientation is an appropriate step towards adoption of the universal declaration of human rights. While the majority of countries voted to decriminalise homosexuality, a significant number of conservative governments did not want to have anything with the motion. Homosexuality is a criminal offence in more than 80 countries, while in at least seven nations, including Saudi Arabia, sex between men can be punished with the death penalty. Not a very enlightened perspective – prefering death to love – in a world of such sophistication.
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