EU equality law is an ‘instrument of oppression’, Roman Catholic bishops warn

[Sol Invictus]

Simon Caldwell
Telegraph
August 5, 2009

The bishops of England, Wales and Scotland denounced the European Commission’s planned Equal Treatment Directive as “wholly unacceptable” because, they said, it would force Christians to act against their consciences.

The directive is aimed at harmonising and enforcing a ban across the 27-member bloc on discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, age, religious belief and disability outside the scope of employment law.

But the bishops say the directive will simply have the result of sharply curtailing the rights of religious liberty and freedom of expression.

They say they will be powerless to stop witches from hiring out church property, for instance, or from insisting that people at Church events behave in a way consistent with Christian teaching.

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[Osweo]

They say they will be powerless to stop witches from hiring out church property, for instance, or from insisting that people at Church events behave in a way consistent with Christian teaching.

Ha! I love seeing the idiots and hypocrits squirm when their own mad policies come round to bite them on the arse! Perhaps, if we allow another fifty years or so for their slow brains to come up with it, we can start talking about a truly libertarian system of personal rights to speak and act as we see fit on our property and in our businesses and so on... Or maybe not.

[Octothorpe]

Considering how the Roman Church sent agents north with fire and sword, treating Heathens with contempt and hatred and oppression, I'm glad to see those child-screwers squirm. Ah, a moment of schadenfreude!

Of course, they are right in the sense that the PC regime in Brussels (and here too) wants to see tradition destroyed so that their philosophy will have no rival. "When they came for the Catholics . . . "