GOP Senators Urge US Ambassador to Denounce UN-backed Report They Claim Is Supportive of ‘Pedophiles’

A group of Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield and asked that condemn a U.N.-endorsed report that they allege “gives credence” to pedophiles while eroding rules that protect minors from abuse and sexual exploitation.
Led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the senators wrote that they want to know whether the White House or Thomas-Greenfield were aware of the report before it was published last month.
“We stand firmly against any foreign effort that seeks to undermine the well-established legal principle that children do not possess the emotional or mental maturity required to consent to sexual relations. We, therefore, request your immediate opposition to these efforts and to rescind any U.S. taxpayer money that may have contributed to the United Nations that crafted this report,” the senators wrote, according to a Rubio press release. “This flies in the face of laws across the United States, and much of the world affirms that all manners of sex between children and adults are coercive.”…}