EU Court Bans Sexuality Tests for Gay Asylum Seekers

Newsweek ^ | December 2, 2014 | Amelia Smith

[CreviceTool]

Today the court ruled that the credibility of an asylum claim on the basis of homosexuality could not be rejected just because the person in question refuses to answer questions about their personal circumstances. While national authorities are entitled to interview asylum applicants, they must do so in a way that does not violate the right of the asylum seekers private and family life.

[CreviceTool]

Hmmm..."Until 2011, Czech authorities used ‘phallometric tests’ to try to determine sexual orientation in asylum processes, a practice developed in the early years of Communist Czechoslovakia that involved using rubber tubes to measure the blood circulation in a man’s penis when shown pornographic material."

[Cowboy Bob]

I would have them prove they are gay.

[MrB]

That’s been one of the counters to the whole “this is who I am” assertion from the left.
If someone claimed to be gay in order to get some benefit,
how would they prove it?

By an ACT. It is the ACT that defines it.

[PGR88]

So, exactly how “gay” are you?

[Svartalfiar]

While national authorities are entitled to interview asylum applicants, they must do so in a way that does not violate the right of the asylum seekers private and family life.

How does that violate any rights to privacy? Their entire claim to asylum throws that 'privacy' out into the public view.