Sources: US to sign UN gay rights declaration

[defendandprotect]

Sources: US to sign UN gay rights declaration


By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer –

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned.

U.S. officials said Tuesday they had notified the declaration's French sponsors that the administration wants to be added as a supporter. The Bush administration was criticized in December when it was the only western government that refused to sign on.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_gay_rights

[Kaleko]

1. Okay, good.

More where that came from, please. We're starving for common sense down here in the trenches.

[Idealism]

2. Won't mean much until Prop 8 gets overturned, but at least its a start. n/t

[chollybocker]

3. Didn't this happen in January? December?

"...the A/P has just learned."

I think the fear-stokers at the A/P and Yahoo are getting a little slow...