They Never Give Up!
Family Watch International -
We are urging you to call or email your country’s Members of the European Parliament (MEP) and ask them to vote against a motion for a resolution on fundamental rights approved by the EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. This motion, tabled as Text A7-0383/2012, will be debated Tuesday evening and voted on by MEPs on Wednesday morning.
The proposed resolution would encourage Member States to remove restrictions on sexuality education; criminalize and characterize opinions against homosexuality as “hate speech”; and legalize same-sex marriage and abortions (if not already done).
We have told you before about the serious problems with sexuality education and that it must be strenuously opposed. As abortion is not a competency of the EU Law, the EU Parliament should not interfere with the competencies of Member States. And in addition to calling for an inappropriate expansion of criminal offences to include expressions based on “homophobic or transphobic intent,” the resolution calls on Member States to protect “the freedom of those without a religion not to suffer discrimination as a result of excessive exemptions for religions from laws on equality and non-discrimination.” This undermines the right to freedom of religion in Article 10 of the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights. Can you guess which organizations helped the Rapporteur for the EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs draft the content of the proposed resolution? They are many of the same activist NGOs that recently bashed Mr. Borg’s nomination as EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner, falsely claiming that his personal and religious beliefs concerning the family, homosexuality, marriage and abortion did not conform to “European values.”
The NGOs who want to radicalize European values through this proposed resolution include the European Humanist Federation, the LGBT lobby (International Lesbian and Gay Association, or ILGA for Europe), Social Platform (an umbrella organization of activist NGOs) and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Many of these NGOs advocate the same radical sexual rights agenda at the United Nations level.
Now for the kicker: The proposed resolution also “Calls for the revision of the procedural rules of the CJEU [Court of Justice for the EU] and General Court in order to facilitate third-party interventions, by human rights NGOs in particular.” If those rules were modified per the resolution, it would expose the independent judicial system that defines human rights to political pressure to redefine and radically expand them.
Many of the NGOs that drafted the resolution and would intervene in judicial cases receive significant funds from the European Commission, creating a serious separation of powers problem. In fact, the resolution also calls for a “permanent scoreboard on justice.”
Time is short. We urge you to call or email your MEPs to vote against the resolution. Please inform your MEPs that if they must vote for something on human rights, they should support an alternative motion, Amendment 4, which was submitted by the PPE Group. Amendment 4 is not perfect by any means, but much improved over the original resolution.
You can find the members representing your country here. Thank you for your efforts to defend traditional family values, parental rights and religious freedom.
Sincerely, Sharon Slater President
www.familywatchinternational.
2012-12-09 06:20:43
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