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The only reason they distanced themselves from NAMBLA was because the united nations suspended IGLA's status because of their association with pedophile organizations. NAMBLA wasn't the only one!
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U.N. Suspends Group in Dispute Over Pedophilia
Published: September 18, 1994
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 16— The United Nations has suspended the only organization here that represents gay and lesbian rights because of its perceived links to groups that promote pedophilia.
The United States argued that pedophilia was inconsistent with the United Nations Charter's provisions on the rights of the children and that members of the International Lesbian and Gay Association -- an umbrella group representing gay and lesbian groups worldwide -- supported and condoned such behavior.
Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, later added an amendment to a Congressional Foreign Relations authorization bill making financing to the United Nations and associated bodies contingent on a certification that they did not support pedophilia nor grant any official status to "any organization which promotes, condones or seeks the legalization of pedophilia."
In June, several groups, including the North American Man-Boy Love Association, were expelled from the International Lesbian and Gay Association, which declared that pedophilia was not consistent with its aims. But when asked by the United States to vouch that none of it members condoned such behavior, the International Lesbian and Gay Association said it could not.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/18/wo...edophilia.html
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