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The Buttiglione Affair

Read more at Road to EU Sefdom

Sergio Lo Giudice, president of the Italian gay rights group Arcigay, said the vote showed the EU’s strong commitment to human rights, including those of gay people.

As a cynic, I could add that the commitment to human rights extends only to members of those groups deemed “minority” by our betters. It’s a total disregard for our rights and liberties that makes the EU the monster it is.

“Of course the whole point of these human rights legislation is to criminalise non PC thoughts, so Mr Buttiglione was perfectly correct in his action. Better still if he had tried to delete the charter from the treaty altogether

In all this, I see the twisting of the concept of tolerance, a key word that we hear repeated constantly. Tolerance is apparently however, only to be extended one way. Tolerance of religious belief is out (except non Christian religions) but those who start witch hunts against people for their beliefs are allowed to call themselves tolerant.

Leftists truly believe that they are better people than conservatives and therefore whatever they do is justified. That is why they scare me so much.”

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By Ken
On October 12, 2004
At 2:49 pm
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