The Patriot Post® · Is Religious Liberty No Longer a Human Right?

There are many reasons why we as a nation have debated our support for the United Nations, one of which involves the organization’s collective narcissism and self-importance.

The latest strike against the UN comes with a recent report issued by Victor Madrigal-Borloz, a Costa Rican lawyer who’s described as an independent “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity. The report was received warmly by the members of the UN’s Human Rights Council — not all of whom have spotless records when it comes to the subject, but all of whom seemingly having an agenda and an outlook disdainful of organized religion, including the U.S. representative.

In his summary of the latest UN diatribe, Christian Post writer Ian Giatti noted that Madrigal-Borloz compared “hate speech” directed toward LGBT people with saying that they’re “a threat to the traditional family” and that “religious doctrines exclude and promote violence and discrimination against homosexuality and gender nonconformity.”

Giatti added that Madrigal-Borloz believes religious freedoms aren’t an adequate legal protection for those who use their beliefs for the “denial of the human rights of LGBT persons,” saying that “violent and discriminatory positions of prejudice are beyond the international legal protections of religious or other beliefs.”

Similarly alarmed about the report was Arielle Del Turco, director for the Center of Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council. Calling the report “staggering,” she explained, “So by the U.N. independent expert making this report and supposedly trying to find a way for LGBT rights and religious freedom to coexist, we see even that at the very core of the report is a huge elevation for LGBT rights.”

Madrigal-Borloz is no stranger to this subject. In 2021, for example, he authored a similar report concluding, “The world must choose between a path of ‘exclusionary narratives’ advanced by ‘ultraconservative political leaders and religious groups’ that perpetuate violence and discrimination, or a path of inclusivity guided by ‘gender theory’ and human rights.”

So you see, it’s not the gender cultists who are at fault; it’s those dastardly “ultraconservative political leaders and religious groups.”

Interestingly enough, Madrigal-Borloz has also been in residence at the Harvard Law School for the last four years, so he’s surely aware of the back and forth that dictated the recent Supreme Court decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis as well as other recent battles between religious freedom and the Rainbow Mafia. Madrigal-Borloz also said last year’s Dobbs decision was “a devastating action for the human rights of lesbian and bisexual women, as well as trans men and other gender diverse persons with gestational faculties.”

Madrigal-Borloz added, “I concur that safe and legal abortion access constitutes a critical part of the right to the highest attainable standard of health (which includes reproductive rights) as well as other human rights including the rights to non-discrimination and equality, the right to respect for private life, the right to life, and the right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment.”

Yes, that’s the “independent expert” the UN is leaning on, and the Biden administration “welcomes their current report.” This despite the allegation that “the report complains of ‘state legislatures seeking to enshrine anti-trans exclusion’ in the U.S. as an example of how ‘religion can be invoked for autocratic practices and denial of basic rights.’”

You know what they say: One man’s autocratic practitioner is another man’s religious freedom fighter.

Indeed, religious liberty is the first of the five freedoms defined within the First Amendment. It is not endowed by government but by our Creator. Obviously, that’s not the prevailing opinion around the world anymore, and it’s under dire assault here in the U.S. by the Left.

That’s because in the eyes of the Rainbow Mafia, everything must be subservient to the gender-identity agenda. And that’s why, now more than ever, the rest of us must fight for our religious liberty.