Posted on 01/20/2006 6:47:55 AM PST by dukeman
The justice minister of the European Union, Franco Frattini, announced this week at the EU parliament in Strasburg that member states which do not eliminate all forms of discrimination against homosexuals, including the refusal to approve “marriage” and unions between same-sex couples, would be subject to sanctions and eventual expulsion from the EU.
According to a report by the Archdioceses of Madrid’s news service Analisis Digital, the commissioner’s statements came as the governments of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland ruled against legalizing homosexual “marriage.”
“Homophobia is a violation of human rights and we are watching member states on this issue and reporting on cases in which our efforts have been unsuccessful,” Fratti said. In this way “the Commission and the European Parliament seek to make any refusal to grant homosexual couples the same rights as a married couple a crime of ‘homophobia’,” the report warned.
Frattini-- who was elected EU commissioner after the EU parliament rejected the nomination of the Catholic intellectual Rocco Buttiglione because of his opposition to homosexual unions-- has proposed “designating 2007 as the year of Equal Opportunity. The objectives would be to inform the public about their rights, promote diversity and, as a value of the Union, make this goal a priority.”
Some EU parliamentarians demanded specific sanctions against states that do not follow the anti-discrimination law and refuse to call homosexual unions “marriage,” for example. Michael Cashman, President of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights, proposed expulsion from of the EU of those countries that “do not adhere to anti-discrimination legislation.”
“If we do nothing we are accomplices in the crimes of violence that we see occurring in many member states,” said Cashman, who is also vice president of the organization Gay & Lesbian Humanists. The organization’s website says it is at war with “Catholic-inspired homophobia.”
Nevertheless, reports Analisis Digital, these proposals have been contested by Polish EU representative Jan Tadeusz Masiel, who called the adoption of children by homosexual couples “repulsive” and “shocking.” Likewise, her fellow Polish EU representative, Barbara Kurdycka, said the EU Parliament had no business telling people what they should think about homosexuality.
The justice minister of the European Union, Franco Frattini, announced this week at the EU parliament in Strasburg that member states which do not eliminate all forms of discrimination against homosexuals, including the refusal to approve “marriage” and unions between same-sex couples, would be subject to sanctions and eventual expulsion from the EU.
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The socialist tyrants of the EU at work. Sounds like Hitler rising from the ashes...
The EU is increasingly looking like something out of the book of Revelations.
I hope Poland exits the EU over this. This seems to be who this is directed towards.
Sounds more and more like the EU is a dictatorship.
Off with their heads!
(Are they doing this just to keep Turkey out of the EU?)
This is a joke, right?
Just doin' the work of the Devil.
Hell....Handbasket Alert
Yeah? Or what? Possible "eventual expulsion from the EU"? Whoa. I'll bet that causes a lot of politicans to lose sleep.
I don't know why all gays just don't mass migrate to Europe. It sounds like a mecca for homos where no one is even allowed to disapprove of your lifestyle.
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This was looking inevitable of late. What's surprising is that it's happening this soon. I would've thought it'd be another 8-10 years.
I dropped the keyboard but didn't recognize the typo. sorry about that.
If nothing else, this may eventually end the push by some Muslim states (Turkey, Morocco, Algeria) that want to join the EU someday.
This is what happens to countries that give up their sovereignty. You have to start playing by someone elses ideas of what the rules are.
Exactly what I thought!
Coming to a Hemispherical Government near you.
The FTAA in our case.
Yeah? Or what? Possible "eventual expulsion from the EU"? Whoa. I'll bet that causes a lot of politicans to lose sleep.
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The good message in all this tripe is that the grand socialist plan and control that the instigators of the EU are trying to put upon the countries of Europe, is VERY clear to see.
What's the downside?
Naw, they are just too
irrelevant for the role.
Mystery Babylon
almost certainly
refers to America.
It only fits us:
"... She has become a home for demons
and a haunt for every evil spirit,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird.
For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her
excessive luxuries."
Revelation 18:2-3
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