Gay marriage – an EU commitment
Tue 2:08 pm +00:00, 12 Feb 2013 10TAP – I haven’t done anything much on gay marriage as it’s so heavily covered in the MSM. However many comments and emails have shown reader interest, this from Stephen.
Sent: 08 February 2013 07:51
To: Chris Woodward
Cc: Vanessa Lee; UKIP LUDLOW; Tony Roberjot; Sarah Walker; Roger Hipkiss; Rod Evans; Philip Gutteridge; Maurice Alton; Margaret Shaw; Kevin Stokes; John Gill; John Davies; Derek Armstrong; Chris Woodward
Subject: EU politics: gay marriage – required by “Europe”, by Richard North
EU politics: gay marriage – required by “Europe”
Same-sex marriage has already been legalised
the Netherlands, by Norway and in Germany, where the constitutional court has recently strengthened the rights of homosexual couples, giving them a same tax benefit as heterosexual married couples. That country, rather like Britain, is currently “mired in an escalating debate on the status of homosexual partnerships”.The clue is in the tidied-up screen grab above, where the Home Office tells us of the Council of Europe and its work, which “includes promoting gender equality and more recently lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&T) equality”.
There also we find that United Kingdom assumed the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for six months from 7 November 2011 to 14 May 2012, whence we cut to thestatement of priorities for the UK chairmanship, in which Minister for Europe David Lidington declares:
Meanwhile, things had already been warming up in Strasbourg, which now has its own dedicated LGBT project which on 31 March 2010 got accepted Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity”.
This, amongst other things, referred to ECHR and “other international jurisdictions”, which “consider sexual orientation a prohibited ground for discrimination and have contributed to the advancement of the protection of the rights of transgender persons”, and then recommended members (including the UK) to:
2. ensure that legislative and other measures are adopted and effectively implemented to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, to ensure respect for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and to promote tolerance towards them;
24. Where national legislation recognises registered same-sex partnerships, member states should seek to ensure that their legal status and their rights and obligations are equivalent to those of heterosexual couples in a comparable situation.
The LGBT lobby in the Council of Europe, however – which has acquired its own website is also able to invoke Protocol 12, explained in detail here, which sets out in Article 1&2, that:
2 No one shall be discriminated against by any public authority on any ground such as those mentioned in paragraph 1.
On the UK front, in anticipation of the UK’s Chairmanship of the CoE in November 2011, HM Government in March 2011 published a report, “Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward”.
Work towards the full implementation in the UK and across Europe of the Council of Europe’s recommendations ‘Measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity’ including by using our Chairmanship of the Council of Europe from November 2011 to review progress.
This, naked in tooth and claw (to coin a phrase) is Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 and the timetable set for “full implementation” in June 2013, with responsibility delegated jointly to the Foreign Office and Government Equalities Offices (see below). And why is the FCO involved? That is because it involves international commitments.
My own research lead to the Bilinger Report, that is getting voted on in the EU.. in other words passed, in November. Thats why all EU countries are ramming homosexual marriage down peoples throats against their wills and not saying anything about it going to be EU law as it will really rile up the population, so I am telling as many people as possible and recommend everyone else does the same.
Its EU dictatorship, not gay rights.
Doesn’t current ‘civil partnership’ legislation in the UK give all these rights to homosexuals, anyway?
I thought the current debate was about the de-defining the meaning of the word ‘marriage’, which currently means something close to ‘a union in law, and in the eyes of God, between a man and a women, for the purpose of family and children’?
re-defining, not de-defining – whatever that is…
studies show that homosexual relationships last on average less than a week why would anyone like this want to marry ?
Hi Tap, Christine Keeler said, “The Masonic Elite were/are into every form of sexual depravity”.
This just about covers most of our MP,s. They have false names, dual Passports and are Freemasons.
Christine knew a lot about sex and even brought down a Government.
Looking back, little seems to have changed, exept they now seem to like little boys and girls.
Where did Christine Keeler say that?
What is wrong with gay mariage??? Why is this an issue for you??
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This is moronic. Low trouser fashion developed because belts are confiscated in prisons as they can used as weapons or to commit suicide. You can’t link universalising of gay marriage with normalising of child abuse. If there was an association between nations that pushed for marriage equality and rates of child abuse then Uganda should have some of the lowest surely, no? http://www.worldvision.org.uk/news/headlines/uganda-child-abuse-rampant/
Only a homophobic bigot would have a problem with gay marriage. Btw…Went to Pride the other day, took part in the march and had a fab time – wonderful atmosphere:)