Posted on 05/02/2007 8:51:48 AM PDT by JoAnka
To the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering:
On April 25, 2007, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning Polish officials for proposing educational policies to protect their children from homosexual propaganda. The EU resolution condemned the Polish government and critized the Polish Prime Minister for saying that “promoting a homosexual lifestyle to young people in school as an alternative to normal life goes too far, and that these kinds of initiatives in schools have to be stopped.” The Parliament asserts that this viewpoint and any implementing legislation are a violation of European human rights law. This is simply not true.
We, thousands of citizens from all over the world, stand in solidarity with the Polish people and strongly condemn the European Parliament resolution on homosexuality in Europe. The resolution is a blatant attempt to bully the people of Poland from exercising their rights to educate their sons and daughters according to their cultural and national traditions. We call on the Parliament to stop this promotion of a radical social agenda, including the proposed "fact finding mission" to Warsaw and the Parliament’s threat of legal action against Poland.
First, the European Parliament has no competence in the area of education. Moreover, the legal instrument the Parliament is using to pressure the Polish government, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, is not legally binding. Finally, the legal document that is binding, the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), makes absolutely no reference to homosexuality. Neither does the Treaty of the European Union. Nor does any binding international human rights treaty.
If the accusations in the resolution had any legal merit whatsoever, the Parliament would have already taken legal action. It did not, and it cannot, because Poland is acting within its rights as a European member state. Poland is acting in accordance with its obligations under international human rights law.
We commend the Members of the European Parliament from Poland who stood up to this harassment in the European Parliament last week, Bogdan Pek and Konrad Szymanski. Their courage to speak on behalf of the Polish people is an inspiring example of the true meaning of fundamental rights and freedoms in Europe.
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I have a great deal of respect for Poland. I hope they can keep standing against this evil.
You can help by signing the petition and/or spreading the word.
ping? thx
I don’t mind supporting them at all, but I am not Caltholic or Polish. Would it make any difference what I think?
This petition is for people of all religions and nationalities. If you agree that gay agenda is a threat to any society, whether Catholic or not, Polish, American or whatever other, then please sign the petition. Your voice makes a difference.
Signed!
Nice to see there is an island of sanity in that river of rot that is Europe. God bless the Polish people.
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There’s a group called “Knowthyneighbor.com” that posted on its web-site the names of people who signed the petition to get the Marriage Amendment on the ballot in MA. One Fireman in Truro MA actually got fired for signing it at his church. The group encouraged harassment of the signers without identifying themselves. So I did some research and when I wrote my column about the effect this had on the ballot initiative process I included their names and business address and phone numbers in it.
Thanks, will do a bit of pinging later today.
The guy had really bad luck. Personally I don’t care at all.
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I signed the petition. Poland stands as a beacon of light in a dimming Europe. I sincerely believe an revival in Europe could begin in Poland. Why don’t the homosexuals celebrate the multitude of other European countries that accept their behavior and quite trying to force their agenda on a country that does not accept it?
Signed and forwarded to my email list of friends equally disgusted by the EU’s “progressive” agenda.
Thank you.
As a Pole, thank you for signing the petition.
“Why don’t the homosexuals celebrate the multitude of other European countries that accept their behavior and quite trying to force their agenda on a country that does not accept it?”
That was supposed to be a rhetorical question, I take it.
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