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.
Resurrect the law that outlaws homosexual acts and proselytizing today's thoroughly confused youth.
I'm all for it. There's nothing discriminatory or unconstitutional about regulating behavior. If we don't like it, why should we have to put up with it?
If liberals can ban prayer in schools -- a constitutional right protected by the first amendment -- we can certainly ban homosexual behavior.
I'm all for it. There's nothing discriminatory or unconstitutional about regulating behavior. If we don't like it, why should we have to put up with it?
You are a true democrat (little d): what "we", don't like, we don't put up with.
That's how we got to tolerating gays, legalizing marijuana, even ending the Vietnam War and racial segregation. We, the majority, finally got tired of putting up with things we didn't like, and we changed the law to suit us. It's why we have a progressive tax code instead of a flat tax or a national sales tax. It's why alcohol prohibition was thrown out.
It's why abortion was kept legal once the Supreme Court changed the law.
It's why the obscenity laws were swept away in all but name, and why sports betting will be sweeping across the USA soon.
It's why the 55 MPH speed limit didn't hold.
It's not hard to look at a couple of more things that we're beginning to like less and less: police brutality and school shootings.
On all of the various issues, the only one I can see that the people have gotten wrong has been abortion. So, I'm all for going the route you suggest: If WE don't like it, we outlaw it. WE is the people, the electorate.
We don't CARE about gay sex, and we don't LIKE laws that go into the bedroom. So now the former is legal, and the latter have been swept aside.
YOU don't like what the people like on a lot of vectors, which is why it's a mistake for you to take such a democratic line. Democracy works for me and the way I want to see things, it REALLY doesn't work for you. You're an authoritarian at heart. The people don't like what you like.
So yes, there's nothing discriminatory or unconstitutional about regulating behavior. if we don't like it, we should we have to put up with it? Let's put these things to a vote. Wait - we already have, in state after state. My side won.
Gays made their gains through the courts, not through the legislatures. Let's be clear about that.
Not so. The Supreme Court swept aside statutes barring gay marriage, but anti-discrimination statutes have been put into place through the vote in states and municipalities all over the country.
In this sense, it is similar to Roe v. Wade, or to Prohibition.
Had a vote been taken to legalize abortion in 1973, it would have failed, but the Supreme Court ruled. Were it put to a vote today, abortion would remain legal.
In a similar vein, Prohibition was pushed through by organized Christian Temperance organizations, but once the law was in place the public at large resented the law, broke it on a massive scale, and ultimately overcame the standard apathy to come out and vote. Indeed, the drive to end Prohibition assisted FDR in getting elected President the first time.
The Courts and the ballot box work together to change things. Frequently the court breaks entrenched political power, and the people go to the ballot box to protect their gains against the revanche
Not so. The Supreme Court swept aside statutes barring gay marriage, but anti-discrimination statutes have been put into place through the vote in states and municipalities all over the country.
From Wiki:
"The strongest expansions in LGBT rights in the United States have come from the United States Supreme Court. In four landmark rulings between the years 1996 and 2015, the Supreme Court invalidated a state law banning protected class recognition based upon homosexuality, struck down sodomy laws nationwide, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, and made same- sex marriage legal nationwide."
"Adoption of children by same-sex married couples is legal nationwide since June 2015 following the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges."
When you can't get the votes, plead your case in front of a socially liberal court.
When you can't get the votes, plead your case in front of a socially liberal court.
Yep. That's our system. The quickest way to ban abortion completely is to get five pro-life justices and have them abolish abortion nationwide as a matter of constitutional right of persons to life.
The power is there. The only question is: who is to wield it?
