Rio's right.

Representatives of the U.S.-based Metropolitan Community Churches met with Brazil's minister for human rights in May to thank him for sponsoring a U.N. resolution calling for "all states to promote and protect the human rights of all persons regardless of their sexual orientation sexual orientation
n.
The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. ."

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Date:	Aug 1, 2004
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