U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-Miami) issued a statement against the United Nations’ General Assembly’s new president. Ali Abdessalam Treki drew Ros-Lehtinen’s ire when he made remarks that appeared to support making it a crime to be gay.
Treki, from Lybia, called the issues around same-sex rights “very sensitive, very touchy.” Said Treki: “As a Muslim, I myself am not in favor of that. It is not accepted in the majority of the world.”
“The anti-gay bigotry spewed by this Qaddafi shill demonstrates once again that the UN has been hijacked by advocates of hate and intolerance,” said Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The U.N. voted last year to urge the decriminalization of homosexuality, but Ros-Lehtinen says the U.S. is still being asked to be a part of “the U.N.’s anti-freedom agenda.”
