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.
Whoa, hold it everybody.
From what I read, sanctions and expulsion are only the dreams of this Commissioner and "some" EU parliamentarians.
This isn't settled yet by a long shot - the EU isn't going to do anything silly that would make 5 or 6 eastern states leave.
Nope. True.
Go Poland!
One way or the other the EU will fracture and break apart either due to economic differences or social/religous differences. You simply can't force feed democracies. Of course, the drafters of the EU Constitution never intended the EU to be a democracy, but that is another story.
wasn't Adolf a homophobic guy ?
As far as I know he was making the point that homosexuals are pervertes poluting the gen pool (I can't guess how) and therefore should be gassed. Which he did.
Isn't a dictatorship something more like restricting peoples rights ?
I can hope that this EU will soon collapse under its own amoral (immoral) philosophy and that its economic system will fail when forced to compete with market forces and that its military will be ineffective because of a lack of any unifying purpose or common identity
That is, until president Hindenburg told him to stop the violence by the stormtroopers and keep them in line or else he (Hindenburg) would declare martial law and dismiss Hitler as chancellor (this happened early june 1934). Hitler decided then to get rid of some of his enemies and all remaining threats to his power (except Hindenburg, whom he knew wouldn´t live much longer anyway, Hindenburg was old and feeble). In the case of Roehm, homosexuality was one of the reasons used for the blood purge of june/july 1934 but it was more of a practical reason than an ideological one. That homosexuals were persecuted later is also more a practical thing than an ideological one.
What is it with Europeans and their love affair with totalitarianism?
It was the second 'night of the long knives'.
No, it's more about adhering to a strict ideology, which in turn leads to restricting people's rights. If you believe the left is all about opening up people's rights then try driving through San Francisco with a gun in a rear window gun rack, or light up a cigarette in a New York restaurant.
There is no "right" to claim other people's children.
lol infact I don't like smoke in resturants and am quite happy with the 'dictatorship' on smokers.
but I see what you mean by looking at the restrictions to alcohol in public - no such thing as a beergarden in munich.
but allowing gays to marry is a delimitation right ?
Sounds like the EU is a self-correcting problem.
Funny, a senior citizen discount at your local grocery store requires proof of age but the same person could claim discrimination on the basis of homophobia merely on his own declaration.; I say, let's turn them upside down and give them a quick look-see to find out the truth.
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.
GET OUT NOW....RUN FOR YOUR LIVES. This should be a serious wake up call to all people of EU.
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