He called on the United States and other nations to press Afghanistan to repeal the law.
However, none of them explicitly agreed to urge the IOC to press Russia to repeal its shameful anti-gay law.
He pressed hard to repeal the country's outrageous blasphemy law that imposes a mandatory death sentence on anyone convicted of "insulting" Islam.
Our elected representatives will shill for the super-rich, such as when Boris Johnson publicly pressed David Cameron to repeal the 50p tax rate.
On the House floor, Republicans pressed legislation to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a group of independent advisers created by the health care law and empowered to find ways to hold down Medicare costs.
Human Rights Watch called on the governor of Aceh, Irwandi Yusuf, to press the legislature to repeal the laws and urged the central government to file an appeal in Indonesia's Supreme Court on the grounds that they violate the country's nonsectarian constitution.
Yesterday, that months' old intervention was rediscovered by Andrew Bolt (presumably during one of his periodic trawls of the blogosphere looking for something about which to be offended), and then injected into the Murdoch press's crusade to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
With the eyes of the world on Russia and Sochi the next couple of months, we have the leverage to successfully press the Russian government to repeal the country's discriminatory anti-gay laws and press the IOC to take into account the human rights records of countries vying to host the Olympics.
Michele E. Granda, a lawyer for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which represented the plaintiffs, said that while her side had the option of asking the United States Supreme Court to hear an appeal, it was much more likely that her group would focus on the New York and Rhode Island cases, and would press the Massachusetts legislature to repeal the 1913 law.
