In Belize, Global “Gay” Movement’s Legal Roadshow Comes to Town
Ten years ago, the late, great American jurist Robert Bork wrote a short book entitled Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges. He described how the “American disease” of judicial legislating—activists using constitutional courts “to outflank majorities and nullify their votes” on controversial social issues—was becoming a global phenomenon. Among other examples, Bork noted a [...]
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 [...]
Family Denied Asylum in US, They Should Have Said They Were Gay
The AP reports on a US Apeals Court decision to leave a family of homeschoolers at the mercy of the German Government, even though the Court found that the US Constitution forbids the state from prohibiting homeschooling. The family faces impossible fines and loss of custody of their children if they are returned to Germany. They should [...]
Nordics Launder LGBT Advocacy through UN Human Rights Office
The UN human rights office is desperate for funding. Navi Pillay, the head of the office, is in New York this week to report on her agency’s work to UN diplomats. Overwhelming her presentation is an unabashed plea for money. The Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights has more work assigned to it [...]
The fight against gender stereotypes and parental rights: the case in France and other European countries
French parents who wish to pass on certain values to their children will clash in the coming months over the Republic’s education system, which the current Government wishes to reform, particularly in relation to the complementary nature of men and women, of human sexuality and of morality. The Taubira marriage law reform proposal should be [...]
Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight
Here is a post published on the Blog “Constitution Project” of the University College Cork (UCC), an inter-disciplinary research group looking at issues surrounding constitutional law, history, governance and politics. It may also be of interest for the readers of Turtle Bay. Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight Posted on March 22, 2013 We are delighted to [...]
UK: Lords make fun of “gay marriage”
Well, that’s also a way of fighting against the rising tide of laws that, in various countries, seek to impose the legal recognition of same-sex “marriages”, and maybe not the least efficient one: to expose those legislative projecs to the ridicule they deserve. As had to be expected, nobody is more talented for this than [...]
US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN
As countries are deadlocked over negotiations going late into the night at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the US and European Union have played a deadly card. One that contradicts a foundational principle of citizens and civilizations worldwide, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. [...]
Monitoring the Monitors
As reported in last week’s Friday Fax, Alliance Defending Freedom took the floor recently at a General Assembly forum on how to reform United Nations Treaty Bodies, calling on the Treaty Bodies not to usurp functions that do not rightfully belong to them. These treaty monitoring bodies, also called “Compliance Committees,” are generally empowered to [...]
Biolaw emerges as a discipline in its own right
While bioethics is a well established academic discipline, biolaw is often overlooked. Unlike bioethics, which is concerned with the question of what should be done or avoided, biolaw aims to answer the question what must or must not be done. Often, issues of biolaw are considered to fall into the purview of health care law. [...]
Pro-Life Organizations Engage Human Rights Council
Several pro-life and pro-family organizations have submitted statements to the Advisory Committee to the Human Rights Council to ask that universal values shared by all civilizations and cultures, including the right to life of unborn children and the natural family as the fundamental unit of society, are not forgotten in the quest to promote and protect [...]
The threat of terrorist attacks against Christians on Zanzibar increases
After a series of attacks against churches in the last months and the murder of a Catholic priest in front of the local Cathedral last sunday and the killing of a protestant pastor the week before, Islamist terrorists have threatened the Christian community on the island of Zanzibar (Tanzania) with “disaster” at the upcoming Easter [...]
Adoption law: New rulings by the European Court of Human Rights and the German Federal Constitutional Cour
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights and Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (which often takes a leading role in human rights jurisprudence which is frequently cited also by Supreme and Consitutional courts in countries outside Europe) have published decisions regard two separate cases involving the adoption of children by same-sex couples. In the Germany, adoption [...]
Human Rights Alert: Forced abortion and sterilization in China.
Abortion and sterilization are quite different in China than in the US. In the US pro-life and pro-choice advocates debate whether abortion should remain a legal choice. As a result 55 million abortions have taken place in the US. In China fertility is controlled by the state. When women violate the one-child policy or related policies (such [...]
Homosexual Advocates Demand a Ban on Therapy
Help for people experiencing unwanted same-sex attraction should be denied – that was the theme of an event held in the Church Center across the street from the UN last week. This article “Jay Bakker’s LGBT Power Struggle” focused on one panelist, a controversial figure in Evangelical circles. He not only read the article, he [...]
Are Homosexuals Less Safe under Obama?
As John Kerry replaces Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State, the White House made clear that Hillary’s priority of women’s rights will carry on. What, some wonder, will happen with another top priority – a totalitarian insistence on LGBT rights, to the point of threatening aid to developing countries? Some UN delegates believe LGBT [...]
A World without handicapped children?
In 2011 the German parliament was divided beyond party lines on the issue of pre-implantation diagnostics (PID) of embryos. The parliament eventually decided to allow PID, thereby weakening the protection of the right to life of the unborn child ex utero. On friday, the Federal Council (vaguely similar in function to the US Senate), which [...]
War Crimes against Civilians in Mali
International forces led by France are advancing into the Northern parts of Mali in an effort to drive out Islamist terrorists which had imposed Sharia law in the area for the last nine months. At the same time not only the terrorists but also Malian forces which are involved in the re-conquest of this part [...]
The Latest Excuse for Population Control: Terrorists
Here it is again. That nasty theory that certain populations (i.e. people of color) need to be culled at any cost, using “drastic” measures, is being touted on the webpages of the respected journal Foreign Policy. The excuse this time is to reduce terrorists. And the target is people in Mali – the very people [...]
Freedom of Speech and LGBT Rights: Many Traditions Don’t Agree With Homosexuality
In recent years same-sex marriage proponents and groups claiming a host of new international LGBT rights have been able to make even international law somewhat interesting. It is no secret that International law is not terribly exciting – reading the minutes of a meeting of the UN International Law Commission or an international human rights body is [...]