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EU Bans Homophobia
 The European Parliament adopted a joint resolution Wednesday against homophobia that LGBT activists cheered as an important step of progress in Europe.
And we've had it with those claustrophobes, too! Out of the closet, you!| As long as we're banning phobias, I'm calling for an end to hydrophobia as well. |
The resolution, titled Homophobia in Europe, was tabled by five political parties and passed by a 469-149 vote with 41 abstentions. | Well done, unelected, unaccountable MEPs. Your day's work is done. Have the taxpayers take you out for a nice long lunch. You've certainly earned it. |
The long measure defines "homophobia" as "an irrational fear and aversion of homosexuality and of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people based on prejudice, similar to racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, sexism." It calls on member states to take action "in the fight against homophobia, sexual orientation discrimination and to promote and implement the principle of equality in their society and legal order." The officers of the Intergroup on Lesbian and Gay Rights praised the resolution, and called on EU Justice Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini to act on it. "I am extremely pleased that the E.P. gives such a strong and clear signal that we will not acquiesce to a climate of hatred and intolerance," said Sophie in't Veld, vice president of the Intergroup.| "Now get out there and make some white trash yobbos really really sorry." |
"Even in the U.K., where enormous advances have been made, a young man was kicked to death just before Christmas for no other reason than he was homosexual. If the E.U. does nothing, it is party to every single blow that was rained upon that individual and other men like him and on gay women across the E.U.," said Michael Cashman, the Intergroup's president.| What's the over/under on the coming ban on Islamophobia? |
Posted by: Faith 2006-01-26 |
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