On the difference between bogus and science – a reply to Sirpa Pietikäinen and Sophie in ‘t Veld
Why can’t those nasty conservatives not just be reverently silent when the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) solemnly pontificates on “LGBT discrimination”? Why can’t they stop using critical thought?? Some days ago I reported on the “LGBT Survey” conducted by the FRA, calling it “bogus research yielding bogus results”. This has aroused the anger and [...]
European Parliament Approves Catholic Nominee
The Friday Fax reported last week on the nomination of Tonio Borg to be European Health Commissioner and the campaign by pro-abortion and pro-homosexual activists to disqualify him, a fully qualified candidate, based on his religious beliefs. Today, the European Parliament approved him by a vote of 386 to 281. European Dignity Watch released this [...]
European Commission Nominee May be Rejected over Catholic Beliefs
Can a candidate who embraces the Catholic Church’s teachings on issues such as abortion and homosexuality serve as the European health commissioner? Do such views exist as one of many perspectives within a continent full of diverse opinions, or are they incompatible with “European values”? These proved to be the broader questions surrounding the November [...]
European Union: Anti-Religious Hate Groups Join Forces to Oust Catholic Politician
Strange things are going on in the EU Institutions. First John Dalli, the EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, was ousted from the European Commission on the basis of (rather flimsy) charges of wrongdoing. Requests to Commission President Barroso to explain why exactly he forced Mr. Dalli to resign have been left unanswered. As [...]
Incredible: “Pussy Riot” nominated for the Sakharov Peace Prize
Yet another confirmation for the deplorable confusion of mind of certain EU politicians: the Russian punk band “Pussy Riot”, whose three female musicians were sentenced to two years in prison after staging an obscene protest in a Moscow cathedral, are among the candidates for the European Parliament’s annual Sakharov Peace Prize. Pussy Riot was nominated [...]
European Parliament Condemns China’s One Child Policy and Sex Selective Abortion
A Resolution at the EU Parliament last week raised alarm bells regarding the recent controversy in China surrounding the forced abortion that Feng Jianmei was forced to undergo. The resolution calls into question the one child policy and condemns forced abortions and sex selective abortion. It also instructs EU diplomats to engage their Chinese counterparts on these [...]
Ugandan Ambassador tells EU: Killing of Homosexual Activist by a Male Call-Boy Was Not “Homophobia”. The European Parliament Is “Surprised and Disappointed”
I have had little time to post on this blog recently, and therefore I am somewhat late in reporting on the scurrilous exchange of letters that took place between the European Parliament and the Ambassador of Uganda to the EU, Mr. Stephen T.K. Katenta-Apuli with regard to the allegedly “homophobic” killing of a homosexual “rights [...]
The European Parliament’s Week For Life 2012: The Program
EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Director Morten Kjaerum involved in fraud scandal
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), which was headed by Morten Kjaerum prior to his current posting as Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, is currently at the focus of a major corruption scandal. Allegedly, the Institute has used fraudulent accounting practices to conceal that it spent over three million Danish crowns on [...]
ILGA-Europe: European Commission’s evasive answers trigger new questions
The European Commission’s funding of ILGA-Europe, a Potemkin-style “non-governmental” organization promoting homosexuality, continues to be a subject of concerns for Members of the European Parliament. The strategy of Commissioner Reding to answer questions evasively and to wait for Parliamentarians to lose interest in the issue does not appear to work. As a reaction of Commissioner [...]
Evasive answers to critical questions: European Commission finds it difficult to explain its funding for homosexualist propaganda
It was of course never to be expected that the European Commission, as a reply to critical questions from the European Parliament with regard to the generous funding it is handing out to ILGA-Europe (a homosexual lobby group with links to pedohile networks), would openly acknowledge to have committed a misuse of budgetary funds. But [...]
An “old car… heading in the wrong direction”: The State of the European Union
Three distinguished Members of the European Parliament spoke at the Heritage Foundation about possible alternatives to the Brussels-style European integration. Geoffrey Van Orden (UK), Derk Jan Eppink (Belgium) and Jan Zahradil (Czech Republic), leading members among the European Conservatives and Reformists, questioned the responses of European leaders to the Euro-crisis, the effectiveness of the new [...]
European Parliament’s gay lobby squeamish over critical questions…
A Member of the European Parliament has tabled a number of Written Questions concerning the European Commission’s strange habit of financing nearly 70% of the budget of an allegedly “non-governmental” homosexualist pressure group called ILGA Europe. The gay lobby is not amused. On the website of the European Parliament’s “Intergroup on LGBT rights”, a network [...]
Member of European Parliament has questions about EU funding for homosexualist lobby
For years and years, the European Commission has been funding the activities of ILGA-Europe, a homosexualist lobby that, under the pretext of “fighting discrimination”, actually promotes a radical agenda and notoriously maintains close links to groups promoting pedophilia. Although this wasn’t exactly kept as a state secret, it somehow has escaped the attention of the [...]
European Parliament resolves to fight HIV/AIDS through … abortion!
Fortunately, hardly any citizen ever reads the pompous yet irremediably silly resolutions through which the European Parliament lets the world know about its opinion on all matters that fall outside its competence. And even more fortunately, fighting AIDS is not one of the responsibilities of the European Parliament. Last week, the Parliament commemorated World AIDS [...]
Motion in the European Parliament links abortion, contraception and HIV/AIDS
On Thursday 1 December, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote on a motion which links abortion, contraception and HIV/AIDS. According to the SPUC, the motion is “yet another attempt by the international pro-abortion lobby to secure recognition of abortion as a universal, fundamental human right, under the guise of sexual and reproductive health”. [...]
European Humanist Federation finds the concept of human dignity “objectionable”…
… si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. An organisation that finds the concept of human dignity “objectionable” must be expected to have similar objections against ideas such as democracy and human rights. It is certainly strange then that the same organisation considers itself a suitable interlocutor for the European Commission or the European Parliament.
Launch of the San José Articles at the European Parliament: “Life, as well as the right to life, starts at conception”
On October 26th 2011, the “San Jose Articles” were launched at a press conference held during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. You can access the video and audio (English and French) recording of the press conference here. (20 minutes) These articles were adopted in Costa Rica on 25th March 2011, to [...]
European Commission: promoting adoption as an alternative to abortion is “inappropriate”
These people really seem to care a lot for the lives of human beings, don’t they…? Parliamentary Question E-005029/2011 Answer given by Commissioner Reding The advertisement says: “(I understand if you aren’t ready for me) …but rather put me up for adoption, LET ME LIVE!”. Such a message is of course totally unacceptable for the [...]
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 [...]