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"[...] The first issue goes to the heart of the matter. Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same. Now, of course, 60 years ago, the governments that drafted and passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were not thinking about how it applied to the LGBT community. They also weren't thinking about how it applied to indigenous people or children or people with disabilities or other marginalized groups. Yet in the past 60 years, we have come to recognize that members of these groups are entitled to the full measure of dignity and rights, because, like all people, they share a common humanity.
"This recognition did not occur all at once. It evolved over time. And as it did, we understood that we were honoring rights that people always had, rather than creating new or special rights for them. Like being a woman, like being a racial, religious, tribal, or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
"It is violation of human rights when people are beaten or killed because of their sexual orientation, or because they do not conform to cultural norms about how men and women should look or behave. It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay [...]"
-- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2011-12-06 (Remarks in Recognition of International Human Rights Day).
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FYI, QOTD posts haven't been showing up on LJ for the past few days.
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I don't really want to hand-post each of the missing entries by copying from a Terminal window and pasting into a web browser, but I guess I'll do that eventually if I have to. (Except for this morning's test post, the last time I posted an entry, rather than a comment, to LJ/DW/IJ/etc. from a browser was ... uh ... probably at least two years ago, if anywhere near that recently? I'd much rather just do
but i guess that even if I have to hand-post 'em, at least it'll be copy+paste (after I modify the temporary script to save entry contents for copying) ... but if this is an API change that Clive needs to be hacked to catch up with, I may just give up on LJ entirely until I've got enough free time to delve into Clive's internals and whatever API docs I can make sense of (unless Clive suddenly starts being maintained again -- I haven't checked lately). I want to make it easy for my only-reading-LJ friends to know when I've posted something to DW, but I've got way too much else on my plate right now.
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