Posted on 02/26/2008 2:59:26 AM PST by markomalley
Brussels, Feb. 25, 2008 (CWNews.com) - The European Commission is threatening action against Ireland for making Church-run institutions exempt from laws that ban discrimination on the basis of orientation and belief.
Irish law allows Church-related institutions such as schools, hospitals, and social agencies to reject employment applicants whose views or activities would violate religious norms. But Vladimir Spidla, the employment commissioner for the European Commission, has cited that policy as a violation of European law. The Irish government has not yet responded to the challenge from the European Commission. The European Commission is also challenging Germany's policy allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil unions. The European Commission argues that the German policy does not give same-sex couples all the legal benefits of marriage and therefore discriminates against homosexuals.
ping!
That’s right, citizens of the states, formerly known as Ireland and Germany!
Get on your knees and crawl in penitence to your masters in Brussels. Well, your masters until they’re replaced by appointees of the new caliphate, anyway.
I can’t wait for the coming NAU.
Laugh while we can.
Actually, we may well see an independent state of Aztlan before we see the NAU.
Of course Ireland can declare independence from the EU.
Ireland just announces that it is leaving and it goes.
However, the EU is a free trade area and much of Ireland’s
success economically is due to the fact that it joined.
There would certainly be costs if Ireland left
As usual, the only people you can discriminate against are Christians.
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