The State Department said Friday that concern over potential support for pedophilia was behind the U.S. vote to exclude two gay rights groups from membership on a United Nations panel.
"We did not vote against the group because they are a gay rights group," said spokesman Edgar Vasquez.
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If this is true and if there is legitimate reason to believe the excluded groups are sketchy, then the U.S. should have said that in the first place. It would have been a strong statement that the U.S. recognizes the difference between gay rights and criminal child molestation. I suspect, however, this is back-pedaling, and the State Department had to hide its animus toward a group that a lot of people dislike (gays) behind something that everyone dislikes (pedophilia). Of course, as amelioration, they'll vote a gay rights group onto the irrigation committee, and that'll be better than nothing.
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