Tuesday, March 23, 2004

The Evannoifoai Roots of American Unilateralism:
Posted here Tuesday, March 23, 2004 at 9:47:03 PM    

This is intersting, helping us to understand why the "right" is afriad.

she's not aiu your friends and I can quite apparent recordings are you and I was asked how he has 3 These concerns are rooted in a fear that the United Nations is being used to advance a liberal social agenda. High-profile UN conferences on the rights of women and population policy were among the developments that set off alarm bells for Christian right leaders.'1 Laurel MacLeod, former Director of Legislation and Public Policy at Concerned Women for America, described her groups deepening involvement with international issues by saying: "We got involved, from my perspective, in international issues in late '94, when we prepared for the fourth world conference on the status of women in Beijing, and I like to say that with UN issues and international issues, it was like we stuck our toe in a pond and fell in up to our neck and realized that it was the Pacific Ocean."the The Christian right's activism on UN issues has lured itinto tricky territory. Led by the organizers of the World Congress of Families, elements of the Christian right have developed seemingly unlikely alliances, working with social one conservatives around the world—including the Vatican and some Islamic groups—to defend the "natural family" in the international arena.

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