UN Defends Killing Babies in Abortion, But Says Nature Has Rights
A U.N. human rights commissioner wants to correct the “misconception” that the human race is superior to animal life while legally codifying non-Christian religious views. Volker Türk, the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated in a June 3 speech at Oxford University, “The widespread misconception that nature is a hierarchy, with homo sapiens at its apex, is at the root of the planetary crises wreaking havoc across our world.”
Presumably that makes Genesis 1:26 a “misconception.” God said, “Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
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Türk asks for the world to recognize the legal “rights” of nature, and prosecute them in a court of law:
“What if we recognized that nature has rights, too?
“The rights of certain species are already widely recognized in many legal systems; cruel treatment is illegal while there are restrictions on animal testing and laws to protect wildlife.
“What about an ocean? A glacier? A tree?”
Türk explicitly tied his proposal to pagan religions: “For many [i]ndigenous [p]eoples, the rights of nature are a given, part of their worldview, cultural practices, religions, and traditional laws. … Rather than viewing themselves as apart from nature, many Indigenous Peoples view human beings as part of nature, as embodied in the M?ori proverb: ‘I am the river, and the river is me.’”
The U.N. chief called on world leaders to create new “models of governance that integrate different worldviews and perspectives, including those that recognize the rights of nature,” reorienting the global policy around “fundamental values and principles that unite us all … rather than distracting people with culture wars.” Protecting unborn babies or minors from irreversible transgender procedures constitutes a divisive distraction, while granting the unalienable rights of life and liberty to redwoods represents the consensus of Geneva’s echo chamber.
“Granting rights to nature would destroy all that he claims to want to accomplish for suffering humanity,’ wrote America’s leading expert on the movement to repeal Genesis 1:26, Wesley J. Smith, at National Review. Smith has long chronicled and critiqued the global movement to establish legally justiciable “rights” for nature, such as forests and bodies of water, and to crimninalize “ecocide,” all while removing human rights at the beginning and end of life.
All three stories prove the global Left’s menacing threat to human exceptionalism and the biblical worldview continues apace.
LifeNews Note: Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.
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