So it turns out that the USA is one a select band of countries that voted AGAINST a UN resolution condemning the DEATH PENALTY for anyone having gay sex. Other countries voting against this barbarity included all the usual "theocratic" suspects, i.e. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Qatar, Yemen and Somalia etc. An excuse was offered by a US representative, her claim was that although the US wasn't in favor of the death penalty for conduct such as homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery and apostasy they were unable to vote for the motion because of "concerns" that the resolution condemned the death penalty more broadly and the US still executes citizens for certain crimes; so, in other words, a "slippery slope" argument.
The fact that US Government were unable to condemn laws that mean someone can be killed for loving the "wrong" person is, I'm sure, bewildering to most civilised people. There was a time when the US used to lead the world on such matters, sadly that lead seems to have slipped.
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