Posted on 07/01/2010 8:17:17 AM PDT by NYer
ROME, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) When a European Christian pro-family group applied to join the Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) of the EUs Human Rights Agency, they did not expect to be denounced as promoters of hate.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) objected to a statement by the Alliance of Romanias Families (ARF) calling same-sex marriage an example of human degeneration, and denied their request for membership.
The ARF, a group lobbying to retain Romanias traditional Christian social and legal underpinnings, had written on their website that, So-called alternatives such as families consisting of same-sex, are nothing but expressions of human degeneration. The FRA responded, saying, The qualification of other peoples sexual orientation as human degeneration is not an acceptable basis for creating a structured and fruitful dialogue.
In a letter to the ARFs president, Peter Costea, the agency called this a fundamental rights perception that is incompatible with the participation in the FRP. The agency also explained that their position was based upon the belief that ARF's views amount to "hate speech."
Costea responded to the FRA, saying that the rejection was ideological and political. He defended his organization, saying that members believe in human rights and dignity for all, in diversity and mutual respect.
We believe in civilized dialogue and robust debate on issues of wide social impact and importance. Nevertheless, we need to point out, respectfully yet unambiguously, our view that your decision to deny ARF membership is discriminatory and improper.
To us it evinces an attempt to weed out organisations that express, based on their freedom of expression and religion, views that are different from those officially espoused by the Agency.
In 2009 the Fundamental Rights Agency invited all stakeholding nongovernmental organizations from EU countries to submit applications for membership in the Platform. The purpose of the platform, the agency says, is to engage in a structured dialogue with civil society, to ensure that the EU and national governments respect the fundamental rights of all persons.
While turning down the ARF, the Fundamental Rights Agency accepted the application of the British Humanist Association (BHA), one of Britain's most outspokenly anti-Christian lobby groups that works for the removal of all signs of Christianity from public life in Britain.
The BHA features a whos who list of Britains most hostile anti-Christians, including atheist Richard Dawkins and its current president, radical feminist journalist Polly Toynbee. The group is best known recently for its atheist bus campaigns and its political work to disestablish the Church of England, to abolish daily worship in schools and to reform religious education to exclude religious belief.
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Did these bigots issue a similar statement condemning islam’s view on this topic?
And their excuse for permitting the Islamic Supremacists to colonize their former nations?
Let me guess, infidel beheadings are ok though, right?
Let me guess, infidel beheadings are ok though, right?
Some GOP Senator should ask Kagan about this, since she likes the concept of consulting foreign law.
Nope, because the target is Christianity.
It has been and always will be “the world” which has as its prince, Satan,
vs
Christ and His Church.
“The State” is soon to be an outright tool of persecution once again as it was in the past.
Moslem beheadings of homosexuals is not “hate speech” on the theory that it’s not “speech” at all. So that’s OK, see?
This was predicted by Jesus 2000 years ago. You want to know what the future holds? Read the Bible, not Nostradamus. This stuff will soon be on our shores. Prepare yourselves.
You can’t get a gay or pro-gay marriage advocate to address islam’s opinions about them or their marital desires.
The cat has got their collective tongues on the subject.
We need not tolerate the intolerant????
Islam’s on the same side as the homos in the Cosmic Battle.
The fecal-eaters are going to have their way with normal people disgusted by such perverted behavior. The deviance marketers are winning.
It has been and always will be the world which has as its prince, Satan,
vs
Christ and His Church.
The State is soon to be an outright tool of persecution once again as it was in the past.””
You sir are exactly right.
Exactly. The anti-Christian bigots of the world are funny like that. They'd not last 2 seconds in a stereotypical muslim country simply because of their own views on things.
This is what will happen here if Obama has his way and Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court. She has already tried to argue that some political speech should be banned if found to be too divisive.
This is partly why Pope Benedict XVI has called for missionaries to re-introduce Christianity to Europe.
BUMP
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