BRUSSELS (ChurchMilitant.com) - Brussels is getting backlash from Poland for flying a gay flag outside of the European Parliament.
On Thursday, a rainbow flag was hoisted up in front of the building for the first time in its history, marking "International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia."
Despite outcry from Polish conservatives, the European Union said, "Regrettably, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons in Europe are still subject to serious discrimination and maltreatment on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity."
Ryszard Legutko, co-chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group, said in a letter to the European Parliament that Thursday's initiative displayed "just one lobby group."
He questioned why the Parliament would not promote other unofficial "international days" like those celebrating museums, beer or students.
Since 1990, May 17 has been remembered as the anniversary of the removal of homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization.
But Legutko blasted the display of a rainbow flag, saying it endorses a "moral revolution" that privileges same-sex couples. There are "practically no ... attacks" on those with same-sex attraction, Legutko emphasized.
There are 'practically no ... attacks' on those with same-sex attraction.
This didn't stop the European Commission and European External Action Service, also in Brussels, from illuminating its headquarters with the colors of the gay flag.
Frans Timmermans, vice president of the European Commission, said, "It's time we put an end to the widespread discrimination against LGBTI people together."
However, Legutko instead recommended hoisting a flag with a fish — a symbol of Christianity — to symbolize the millions of Christians suffering persecution worldwide.
Poster Comment:
Many of us are sick and tired of politicians kissing the asses of queers! Resurrect the law that outlaws homosexual acts and proselytizing today's thoroughly confused youth. The belong hidden under a rock.
Widespread LGBTQI discrimination? Where? When? By whom? If it happens there must have been major stories in the press. But nothing.
Instead what I see are Christians being slaughtered and persecuted by the thousands over the last 20 years and not a word from the atheistic marxists in Brussels, London, Berlin, Paris.
You would agree that they do it a lower rate, based on common sense?
Of course. First of all,there are FAR fewer true homosexuals than there are bi-sexuals and heterosexuals.
I am speaking of bi-sexual and heterosexual people as people who have those desires,regardless of if they are sexually active or not.
Over the course of several generations such genes would be wiped out of the pool.
Ain't no such thing in the known universe. We are ALL born with both female and male genes. Somehow or another the "correct balance" of genes, for what of a more scientific description, to create a completely heterosexual baby,gets out of whack,and a baby will be born with a genetic inclination to be sexually attracted to people of the same gender,or people of both genders.
These people have no more control over who they are sexually attracted to than you do,so why do you think it is permissible for government to punish them for what amounts to a genetic birth defect?
BTW,don't even THINK that you can deny that all of us are both with both male and female genetic codes until you can come up with an explanation of why males are born with nipples.
BTW-2,NONE of this means that you personally have to like any of it. It just means that government doesn't have the right to dictate private behavior to people just because we don't like or approve of what they might be doing in private.
These people have no more control over who they are sexually attracted to than you do,so why do you think it is permissible for government to punish them for what amounts to a genetic birth defect?
I don't. Same way with adulterers (as they feel sexually attracted to other people's wives) , I do not want government to punish them.
These people have no more control over who they are sexually attracted to than you do,so why do you think it is permissible for government to punish them for what amounts to a genetic birth defect?
I don't.
You should. What about those born with "what amounts to a genetic birth defect" an attraction to young children? Animals? Dead bodies? They get a pass also because they were "born that way"?
There's a thing called "self- control". I don't care what you're attracted to. If society is against it, control yourself. We do not have to accept perversion.
If society is against it, control yourself. We do not have to accept perversion.
If. Truth is, society is more against police intrusion in the bedroom than it is against perversion, and we - the majority -are right about that. So we've stripped away the power of you, the minority, to enforce laws on private sexual behavior. You still hate it, but you've lost the law. We took it from you, and we're not giving it back.
You have to accept that perversion is legal, because it is, and we're not going to let you make it illegal again.
So we've stripped away the power of you, the minority, to enforce laws on private sexual behavior.
I'm against the public, not private, behavior of gays.
I don't want my children exposed to perversion and a lifestyle choice associated with the spread of a deadly disease and other STDs, rampant drug use, sex orgies, sex with strangers, different sex partners every week, and a high rate of depression and suicide.
Even those gays who "fall in love" and "get married" feel no obligation to remain sexually monogamous.
So go ahead and engage in your private behavior. I won't stop you.
Condemned, sure. But outlawed? No. Empowers the police and politicians too much. If people want to piss on each other and roll around in feces, I think there's something wrong with them. If they do it in the street that needs to be stopped. But to empower the authorities to go into private places to stop and punish things that people do in private? No. It's much worse to have such powerful police than it is to have people committing acts against nature.
"My dear, I don't care what people do so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses." - Mrs. Patrick Campbell
But to empower the authorities to go into private places to stop and punish things that people do in private? No.
I suppose it follows, then, to ask "Where do you draw the line?"
After all, people can molest children, beat slaves, drown puppies, traffic heroin and make bombs in private. Do we just let that go?
No. You draw the line at murder, non-consensual sex, slavery, animal cruelty and terrorism. Drugs is where the issue gets muddier. Is it better to maintain drug prohibition and thereby keep the general level of drug abuse and drug addiction lower in the society, as alcohol prohibition did (50% reduction in cirrhosis during prohibition - it massively reduced alcoholism and drunkness, but at the price of intrusion and organized crime)? Or is it better to let people consume what they will unmolested, and treat the results medically?
I would say it's a line-drawing exercise, just as drinking ages are. Strong drugs such as LSD and opiods are terrifically destructive fast. Weak drugs, such as cannabis or nicotine, don't destroy most people who have used them, and most people have tried them at one point or other in their lives.
The line is drawn where democracy draws it. If I were King, or running a political party, I would call of marijuana to be treated as tobacco, and for the drinking age to be lowered to 18.
I expect that in our democracy, I will eventually win on the first point: pot is gradually being legalized. I'm not really comfortable with that: I would have preferred that the harsh drug laws from Rockefeller until now really had stamped out drugs. But they didn't, and they won't, and I'm not willing to go on chewing up lives in a losing war.
I expect that I would lose on the second: when the drinking age was 18 there was a lot more death on the roads from drunken high schoolers.
