Posted on 12/08/2007 12:53:39 PM PST by wagglebee
AMSTERDAM, December 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Netherlands has led the world in the introduction of the homosexual political movement. Now it is going to be leading the way to cracking down on dissent from the officially "tolerant" position on homosexuality, particularly among those Dutch citizens who "follow a more orthodox religious lifestyle".
The coalition government has agreed to earmark 2.5 million euros from 2008 to 2011 to promote homosexuality as normal in social areas. The government said that the money will be spent on programmes specifically targeting young Muslims in schools, sport clubs or neighbourhood associations.
Ronald Plasterk, minister of education admitted that Dutch homosexuals enjoy the same rights as everyone else, "socially the acceptance is not automatic among certain ethnic minorities or people who follow a more orthodox religious lifestyle."
The Netherlands was the first country in the world to institute same-sex "marriage" and allow homosexual partners to adopt children.
The policy will extend, in as-yet undisclosed programmes, to Dutch foreign aid donations. Development Cooperation Minister Bert Koenders told Parliament, "The Netherlands will promote equal rights for gays as much as possible. We will not avoid awkward discussions about this."
The government told its ambassadors to developing countries to increase pressure on those nations to decriminalize homosexuality.
But it is not merely "religiously orthodox" people who retain at least subconscious objections to public displays of homosexuality. Gay activist Frank van Dalen, president of the Dutch national homosexual lobbyists, Federation of Dutch Associations for Integration of Homosexuality, (COC), complained that a recent poll showed that 48 per cent of the population is shocked by two men kissing and the number goes up to 75 per cent of recent immigrants.
Dutch homosexual activists are powerful at the European Union where pressure is mounting on Poland to adopt the Charter of Fundamental Rights that is seen as a crucial instrument in installing the full programme of gay activism. The EU gay activist group ILGA-Europe praised the increase of pressure to normalize homosexuality by the EU Commission on candidate countries such as Turkey and Serbia.
An ILGA-Europe spokesman said the group "appreciates" such efforts and praised the "clearly positive development in the progress reports as the human rights of LGBT people are explicitly mentioned in a larger number of the eight reports than last year."
Now this should be interesting!
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Good luck with that.
Yes, indeed. I’m looking forward to the upcoming goat rodeo.
Sweet Moses! Am I really going to have to pull for the Muslims in this mess?
Europe is practically aborting its own culture. What a horrible shame.
I s'pect it is a much higher percent than that. Some people stretch for pollsters.
Indeed—interesting. In a weird way, this is showing a kind of courage.
2 Dutch homosexuals found an old oil lamp by the sea. They rubbed the lamp and a genie appeared...
Hmm.
I’d rather worship Allah.
Perhaps it is time for this particular cultural product to be killed off.
This is going to backfire.
this is us in 20 years
Above everything else, supporters of homosexuality desire approval from everyone else. And on the deepest personal level, they demand approval from God. When approval is not forthcoming voluntarily, than approval is decreed by getting government to coerce and propagandize the public into giving it. It may appear to be sufficient that people who find homosexuality naturally revolting just stop giving their opinion, but in time even that will not be enough for homosexuals. Even if some people are scolded into silence, or even sufficiently “re-educated” to accept homosexuality, God has already sufficiently published His judgment on the matter.
Sounds like a “pass the popcorn” situation. I’d like to see them stage a Gay Pride parade that is timed to pass by the biggest mosque there right as Friday services are letting out
Yowzah! Break out the popcorn - this is gonna be some good TV!
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