OAS Treaty Would Grant Human-Rights Protection to Sexual Orientation
by Pete Winn, associate editor

Members of the Organization of American States (OAS) begin work this week on a treaty that would make sexual orientation "an inalienable right" worthy of human-rights protection.

"The document before the OAS this week mentions sexual orientation 15 times," according to Thomas Jacobson, Focus on the Family Action's representative to the United Nations. "In addition, it contains terms like 'hate crimes' and veiled pro-abortion language."

He said the nation behind the proposed language -- Brazil -- first tried to get the U.N. to go along in 2003.

"They failed in that attempt," Jacobson said. "They pushed again in 2004, and again failed, and, by 2005, they came to the Organization of American States."

The OAS is a 34-nation organization that includes the U.S., Canada and Mexico, as well as nations in Central and South America and the Caribbean. the rest