Reacting to a piece in Out Magazine on the United States’ vote at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, actress Sophia Bush declared it “truly deplorable” that President Trump would vote against a ban on the murder of gay people in other countries.
U.S. Government Defends Voting Against U.N. Ban on Death Penalty For Homosexuality: https://t.co/1LltcmRHx9 pic.twitter.com/8QErRmJpdy
— Out Magazine (@outmagazine) October 4, 2017
Shameful. The fact that the U.S./Trump would vote AGAINST a U.N. ban of the murder of gay people in other countries is truly deplorable. https://t.co/LB6pT4lUdW
— Sophia Bush (@SophiaBush) October 4, 2017
Even the Out piece to which she was responding included comments by State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert saying the United States was “disappointed to have voted against that resolution” but that it called for the abolition of the death penalty altogether.
.@statedeptspox comments on a vote related to the death penalty at the @UN #HumanRights Council in Geneva. #UNHRC pic.twitter.com/nSugkMrBZC
— Department of State (@StateDept) October 3, 2017
Maybe what’s truly deplorable is that other countries do punish homosexuality by death. That and the U.N. itself, which is pretty much deplorable.
LOL @sallykohn retweeted this with no understanding of the resolution's wayyy more broad death penalty rules and the WH's explanation https://t.co/P2aoQvvDDC
— American Experiment (@AmExperiment) October 4, 2017
If Sally Kohn and Sophia Bush are both riled up, chances are very good there’s been a lapse in comprehension.
https://twitter.com/pszczolko44/status/915711946619531264
This is incoherent. The US did not reject "a U.N. ban of the murder of gay people". Read your own tweets before you post them. https://t.co/ib4L1hH6ua
— The Ghost of Silent Cal (@cjgermain09) October 4, 2017
You clearly didn’t read the resolution at all @SophiaBush; because if you did you would know what you wrote isn’t true. https://t.co/hEP4uCgbSy
— Conservative Review (@CR) October 4, 2017
This is selective and inaccurate. The resolution also called for abolition of the death penalty altogether. https://t.co/crD53RI8Ct
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 4, 2017
.@nikkihaley clearly and forcefully condemned legal penalties for gays and lesbians.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 4, 2017
Reality: U.S./Trump votes against the complete abolition of the death penalty.
Left: Trump is against stopping the murder of gay people. https://t.co/dQ8UniLECR
— Zeus (@EvanLHarris2) October 4, 2017
Please go back and re-read the entire resolution. It can't work. https://t.co/p1HSXpSHhs
— Silenced DoGood (@BETSIBUBBLES) October 4, 2017
“Re-read”? That’s being generous. Try just reading the article for starters.
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