Posted on 02/12/2020 6:26:03 PM PST by marshmallow
February 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) The Swiss have voted by a large majority to make homophobia a criminal offense.
On Sunday, 63.1 percent of the voters who turned out for several popular initiative referendums agreed that discrimination, hate speech and other forms of public insults aimed at homosexuals because of their sexual orientation will be punishable by a fine and up to three years imprisonment.
During the run-up to Sundays vote, the Catholic hierarchy in Switzerland was mostly conspicuous by its absence from the debate.
With the new legislation, the aggravating circumstance of a victim's homosexuality will be added to the original 1994 anti-discrimination and hate speech law in Switzerland's penal code that already criminalized discrimination on the basis of race or religion. How it will be applied in practice will be determined by jurisprudence. To date, sanctions for discrimination and hate speech under the original law are usually limited to fines, only rarely moving up the scale to a suspended prison sentence.
However, the basis for public control of opinion on the question of homosexuality has now been laid and the door has been opened to thought police on the subject. Moreover, LGBT groups have already made clear that they plan to capitalize on the success of their agenda: they now want hate speech laws to protect trans people and gender identity and are already campaigning in that direction.
Sunday's vote is also expected to reopen the issue of same-sex marriage, adoption and medically assisted procreation for lesbians in Switzerland, where to date, only civil unions are open to same-sex couples.
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And we are not just talking about verbal abuse, or get in your face abuse.
They will now have a free ticket for rape and child molesting. Anyone filing a rape or molesting complaint has to sweat out the PC crowd throwing out the charges and nailing the victim for homophobia.
Democracy is so flawed.....
That’s why we never had or were intended to have a democracy. That is a horrid system.
They can’t reproduce, so they must recruit.
Obey, citizen!
Democracy is when two wolves and one sheep decide who is for dinner.
Switzerland sounds Islamophobic.
That is so gay ...
“Democracy is so flawed.....”
Their’s a little more than ours concerning free speech:
Freedom of speech is guaranteed by their constitution. Switzerland has a free media environment, although the state-owned Swiss Broadcasting Corporation dominates the broadcast market. Consolidation of newspaper ownership in large media conglomerates has forced the closure of some small and local newspapers. The law penalizes public incitement to racial hatred or discrimination as well as denial of crimes against humanity. The government does not restrict access to the internet.
So unless you don’t insult anyone for racial hatred or discrimination as well as denial of crimes against humanity, you’re fine. Course there’s no way to tell what that is as it the determination of a government that basically elects itself. Kinda hard to be wrong.
rwood
Switzerland Votes to Criminalize Homophobia
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In other words, “Switzerland Votes to Criminalize Thought Crime”.
Pete Buttplug is a faggot & I don’t like him.
By and large, Christians left the Boy Scouts because of this kind of law being forced on them. Will we now leave the country when the law forces churches to preach how God wants gay marriages?
Or that a percentage of our priests and teachers be gay?
Bob Hope, touring the world in the year or so after the passage of the California 1975 Consenting Adult Sex Bill:
Ive just flown in from California, where theyve made homosexuality legal. I thought Id get out before they make it compulsory.
Homophobia is a mental disorder and they’ve made it a crime?
It’s the fear of associating with people who also have a mental disorder.
What if someone was born a homophobe and had genetic proof?
Isnt that was gays say? They say they were that way.
So God is “homophobic?”
Good luck with that.
Three percent, at best, of the world’s population is dictating to 97%......
I never understand how that works.
It also galls me that the people who talk about democracy all the time really believe that a tiny percentage of people are entitled to boss around the vast majority of people.
It’s a mental illness and I see no reason to kowtow to these people.
Lol.
I think you've nailed it.
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