Secularist Europe Silences Pro-Lifers and Creationists

Brussels Journal ^ | 6/23/07 | Paul Belien

[Jeff Chandler]

Europe- soul mates of the Democrat Party.

[Greg F]

Jailing Christians for saying what they believe. This is where speech codes will take us in America if we let them exists without constant challenge.

[cornelis]

The latter are being persecuted by Western Europe’s political regimes – a phenomenon which is ignored completely by the Western mainstream media, who participate in the persecution.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

If it talks like an aggressively intolerant religion and behaves like an aggressively intolerant religion, then chances are it is an aggressively intolerant religion. This European aggressive secularism exhibits a brutal dogmatism exceeding by far the American left’s wildest fear of “right wing fundamentalism”.

[Timocrat]

We’re not far behind . See McCain-Feingold.

Where is Voltaire when you need him.

[NapkinUser]

Seems the Nazis never left Germany.

[cornelis]

The killing of the unborn is a holocaust. What the Germans did to the Jews pales to what is happening today:

Number of abortions per year: Approximately 46 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 126,000

[marsh_of_mists]

According to the Council of Europe these theories are “undemocratic” and “a threat to human rights.”

I'm increasingly skeptical that any of these European countries ever really understood the concepts of democracy or human rights.

[Excellence]

“Volksverhetzung”

This is the arguement Trent Lott uses against Rush.

[NapkinUser]

“a threat to human rights”

Like the right to believe whatever the hell you want to believe?

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

With this mentality, its only a matter of time before another Hitler like figure arises claiming moral superiority. There is nothing uglier in the universe than fallen man playing god.

[cornelis]

“While most curricula in Europe today unashamedly teach evolution as a recognised scientific theory, the same does not apply to the United States. In July 2005, the Pew Research Center conducted a poll that showed that 64% of Americans favoured the teaching of intelligent design alongside the theory of evolution and that 38% would support the total abandonment of the teaching of evolution in publicly owned schools. The American President George W. Bush supports the principle of teaching both intelligent design and the theory of evolution. At the moment, 20 of the 50 American states are facing potential adjustments of their school curricula in favour of intelligent design. Many people think that this phenomenon only affects the United States and that, even if it is not possible to be indifferent to what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic, it is not the Council of Europe’s role to deal with this issue. That, however, is not the case. On the contrary, it would seem crucial for us to take the appropriate precautions in our 47 member states.”

Underlining mine.

[aimhigh]

ping for later read

[GregoTX]

"Other German courts convicted pro-lifers for saying that “in abortion clinics, life unworthy of living is being killed..."

Marxists using the power of the government to destroy lives that do not speak the government approved dogma in the name of human rights. I bet this article is an inspiration to "Presidential Hopeful" Klinton, imagine the possibilities government control can have to protect us from those that do not speak government approved speech.

[cornelis]

CoE

[wideawake]

Darwinism imposed by law.

[ROTB]

According to a report of the CoE’s Parliamentary Assembly, creationists are dangerous “religious fundamentalists” who propagate “forms of religious extremism” and “could become a threat to human rights.”

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But Islam gets a pass, and they continue to import them by the gross ...

[JamesP81]

Other German courts convicted pro-lifers for saying that “in abortion clinics, life unworthy of living is being killed,” because this terminology evoked Hitler’s euthanasia program, which used the same language. In 2005, a German pro-lifer, Günter Annen, was sentenced to 50 days in jail for saying “Stop unjust [rechtswidrige] abortions in [medical] practice,” because, according to the court, the expression “unjust” is understood by laymen as meaning illegal, which abortions are not.

We all think of Germany as a nation that removed itself from fascism after World War 2.

I submit, however, that Europe's tendency to live its history as opposed to studying it, is at work here. The Germans may have distanced themselves from Nazism in particular, but they are what they are. And they don't realistically believe that they could ever be anything else; therefore they won't be.

Statism is very much alive and well in the Fatherland.

[JamesP81]

I'm increasingly skeptical that any of these European countries ever really understood the concepts of democracy or human rights.

All of the Europeans that did left for America while the gettin' was good. The few that didn't were beheaded during the French Revolution.