The United Nations is on the edge of glory! A South African-drafted resolution that expresses “grave concerns at acts of violence and discrimination, in all regions of the world” for our extended LGBT family abroad, and calls for an international investigation of their treatment, has just passed.

The U.S. State Department’s strong support for equality in this matter represents a direct about-face from the approach of the Bush administration, which fought against a similar French-introduced resolution in 2008, presumably because the word “French” was not replaced with the word “Freedom” in the resolution’s wording, or maybe for some other similarly dim and wrong-headed reason.

Naturally, there are the haters, such as Pakistan’s envoy to the U.N. in Geneva, who on behalf of the Organization or the Islamic Conference criticized the resolution as having “nothing to do with fundamental human rights.”

Well! Pakisan’s envoy, on behalf of the Organization of People Who Believe that We Are All People , allow me to quote our surprise marriage equality ally of the week, Roy McDonald, and say to you, “Fuck it, I don’t care what you think.”