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The article seems to pinpoint the majority of anti-gay sentiment came from the smaller, less civilized nations.
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It does. However, the UN assigns each nation a vote, no matter how atrocious their records on the subject at hand. The UN is also remarkably unwilling to label any act committed by non-white persons as Genocide (that's something only Evil White People do, nevermind Darfur). If you're looking for the UN to actually take a meaningful stand in favour of Human Rights, forget it. The UN, being a Democracy, is effectively run by the majority in any vote (the obvious exception being US vetoes on matters Israeli), and that "majority" in the UN is composed in the main of tin-horn dictatorships, petty theocracies, corporatist kleptocracies, and various forms of majoritarian Statism. None of these are economic/social systems renowned for defending Human Rights, let alone the Rights of their respective minorities. There's a -reason- that UN peacekeepers have been so heavily involved in drug/human trafficking, prostitution, and turning blind eyes to every manner of abuse: because the victims are people whom their country's UN Representatives wished gone.