The question of the death penalty.

People who should know better are spouting off that the US refused to sign a UN resolution advocating against the death penalty for gay sex. That is only true in the most narrow technical sense, if you leave out all context, and if your goal is to be misleading.

Out of dozens of paragraphs expressing disapproval for the death penalty in general, there is exactly one mention of the LGBT issue, in four words at the end of one sentence. The resolution was a generic anti-death penalty resolution, not an LGBT oriented resolution. No US administration has ever signed on to any of the various UN resolutions that condemn the death penalty. It's perfectly fair to believe the US should abolish the death penalty (I do) but characterizing the resolution as being primarily about restricting the death penalty for gay sex is intentionally misleading.

Here is the government's official position on the matter, verbatim:

"We voted against that resolution because of broader concerns with the resolution’s approach in condemning the death penalty in all circumstances," Nauert said. "The United States unequivocally condemns the application of the death penalty for conduct such as homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery, and apostasy. We do not consider such conduct appropriate for criminalization.”

Here is the full text of the UN resolution:

https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G17/276/68/PDF/G1727668.pdf