UNIBAM
Caleb Orozco, Executive Director of UNIBAM

United States human rights activists are pressuring the central American country of Belize to relax its policies on homosexuals.

The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) has issued a challenge to the government of Belize before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), saying that the Belizean government must implement ways to protect its LGBTI community.

When one looks closer at the demands, however, it becomes clear that the issue is not merely about protecting homosexuals. Rather, UNIBAM is aggressively targeting those who dissent from the gay rights agenda.

UNIBAM is insisting that government punish those who commit “speech crimes” and “hate crimes” against LGBTI people. They claim violations have been made against LGBTI citizens in the areas of education, health, and employment.

On 28th March, the State of Belize was summoned to Washington DC, to appear before IACHR after UNIBAM petitioned for a rights hearing. Caleb Orozco, Executive Director of UNIBAM, led the charge by citing various “crimes” against gay people, none of which were supported by official documentation. In addition, he praised the government of Belize for continuing to enact the revised gender policy, which defines sexual orientation as “diverse,” and classifies contraceptives as a “public good.”

This revised gender policy is being pushed forward by the National Women’s Commission of Belize (NWC) and funded by the UN. Neither the public nor religious leaders were consulted on its passage. It was essentially passed in secret by gay rights activists in Belize.

Mr Orozco has been given money by Freedom House, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization. Although not directly connected with the US government, Freedom House is in turn supported with $250,00 gifts by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State. By following the money, we see that this is another instance of neocolonialism, whereby developing countries are being pressured by the West to make homosexuality the norm.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. I will never be convinced that the homosexual act is natural. While I sympathise with homosexual people in their predicament I will always see the homosexual act as a total perversion of nature.