EU: Courageous NGO exposes hypocrisy of LGBT agenda
As the followers of this blog will know, I have already at various occasions informed about the fake “non-governmental” organisation ILGA Europe and its very special links to the European Commission, which funds 70% of the controversial pressure group’s operational budget with taxpayers’ money. The close relationship between ILGA Europe and the European Commission does [...]
Gay Marriage is Not a Human Right. Says European Court of Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights does not require member states’ governments to grant same-sex couples access to marriage. The European Court of Human Rights repeated this ruling in the case of Gas and Dubois v. France, a judgment decided last week in Strasburg involving a french lesbian couple in a civil union. The lesbian [...]
Former Belgian Prime minister annoyed over Hungary’s new Constitution
As my friend and colleague Roger Kiska has noted in a prior contribution, the fact that Hungary has given itself a new Constitution that (a) invokes God in its preamble, (b) protects human life as from the time of conception, and (c) defines marriage as the “conjugal union of a man and a woman based [...]
Hungarian Constitution a Victory for Life and Family
Exciting news from the Central European nation of Hungary, where the new government under Prime Minister Viktor Orban has adopted a new constitution which is expected to be ratified by Hungary’s President on April 25 and come into force at the beginning of 2012. The new constitution is significant in several ways. First, it is [...]
Europe: The Italian crucifix case, religious neutrality and secularism
On the 18th of March, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled by a majority of 15 votes to 2, that the presence of the crucifix in Italian public classrooms does not violate the freedom of religion and the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their philosophical [...]
Opposition to Proposed Moldovan Law Grows
On February 17, 2011 the Moldovan government adopted proposed anti-discrimination legislation which it purported to do on the basis of harmonizing its laws with existing EU Directives and Regulations. The premise behind the proposed legislation is to further Moldova’s aspirations of becoming an EU Member State and have its EU visa restrictions lifted. Upon closer [...]
EU: Study on Conflicts between new and old “Fundamental Rights”
I recommend to yor attention a recent study that was written by two legal experts of the masonic Université Libre de Bruxelles and financed by the European Commission. It deals with the “search of a balance between the right of equality and other fundamental rights”. The paper is illustrative of the chaotic status of contemporary [...]
The social cost of “Anti-Discrimination”: higher insurance fees for everyone
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today issued a highly controversial judgment, according which insurance companies will be obliged to offer “unisex fees” for all insurance schemes, even if the insured risk differs significantly between men and women. It is the first time that the EU is confronted with the consequences of having enshrined into [...]
Fundamental Wrong Agency
I had the pleasure recently of attending the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Expert Workshop on the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred in Vienna. With very low expectations coming in I had anticipated the event to be a free-for-all lobby on behalf of hate speech activists’ promotion of the banning of Islamaphobia and [...]
What did EU Commissioner Reding really say about the “mutual recognition of same-sex marriages”?
On the website of the European Parliament’s “Intergroup on LGBT Rights” (always a very good source of information on the schemes and thoughts of Europe’s homosexual lobby), there is a story on the European Commission having issued “a clear statement on mutual recognition of same-sex unions.” A clear statement on mutual recognition of same-sex unions?? [...]
European “Humanists”: Lobbying for Anti-Values
What is posted below is a paper by David Pollock, President of the “European Humanist Federation” (EHF), in which he expands on the aims and strategy of his organisation. As one can learn from this piece, the self-proclaimed “humanists” have not sought the opportunity for “dialogue” the EU is offering them. Instead, they are concerned [...]
Catholic Adoption Agencies Persecuted in UK
The Telegraph reports that a High Court judge ruled last Thursday that Catholic Care, the “last remaining Roman Catholic adoption agency to resist Labour’s equality laws” is not allowed to “restrict its services to heterosexuals only.” This sad ruling will likely force Catholic Care–which started as an orphanage in 1863–to close its adoption service. In an [...]
Alan Dershowitz Defends Pope Benedict XVI
Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Havard Law School, wrote today in an article appearing in Front Page, in defense of Pope Benedict XVI on the issue of sex abuse in the Church. Recognizing that the sex abuse issue in the Catholic Church is an “extraordinarily complex problem,” Dershowitz noted five traditions [...]
European Parliament says that “women must have access to contraception and abortion”
The European Parliament today adopted a new report on equality between women and men in the European Union. In this report, the European Parliament: “38. Emphasises that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights, notably through easy access to contraception and abortion …” Once more, a thin minority of the EP has adopted a [...]
European Commission: The Fundamental Rights Agency Has No Competence To Monitor Member State’s Legislation
Bernd Posselt MEP The controversial EU Fundamental Rights Agency has received a new blow, this time from the European Commission: replying to a Written Question of the German MEP Bernd Posselt, the Commission clarified that the Agency has no mandate for assessing the compatibility with EU Legislation (including the EU Fundamental Rights Charter) of laws [...]
EU: Imminent Attack Against Catholic Commissioner Designate?
The Catholic news portal ZENIT reports today that left and liberal Members of the European Parliament plan to launch an attack against the appointment of Viviane Reding from Luxemburg as the new EU Commissioner responsible for Fundamental Rights. The reason? Mrs Reding allegedly is a Catholic practising her faith, which alone suffices to disqualify her, in the eyes [...]
The EU Fundamental Rights Agency to get involved in legislative procedures? New Resolution adopted by the European Parliament raises concern and astonishment.
In an earlier post, we have reported on the European Parliament’s attempt (and failure) to provide the controversial EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) with a role in assessing the conformity with EU Legislation of laws adopted by Member States. This lead to the adoption of a Resolution, by the parliament of the Member State concerned, in [...]
Sweden Does Not Deliver on ETD
As the curtain falls on the Swedish EU presidency, Christians and Churches in Europe can now breathe a collective sigh of relief that no meaningful progress was made on the European Union’s Equal Treatment Directive (on the delivery of goods and services). The Directive, initially drafted to help implement the United Nation’s Convention on the [...]
Irish Supreme Court Asserts that Constitution Trumps European Convention on Human Rights
From the Land of Saints and Scholars comes this report and analysis that a father – even one who is the sperm donor for a child being raised by the mother and her lesbian partner – has certain rights when it comes to his child, consistent with Ireland’s Constitution. In a matter of significance, a [...]
Watch the Money…
Social conservatives and Euroskeptics wary of the Lisbon Treaty had pinned their hopes on politics to stop the Grand European Integration Project: what would Irish voters, Vaclav Klaus, the Polish parliament, etc. do? Given the political interests at stake, however, was there any real doubt about eventual Lisbon ratification? There is, however, a fly in [...]