EU Overwhelmingly Votes To Condemn Homophobia

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/06/061506euvote.htm

The European Parliament on Thursday sent a strong warning to member states which condone homophobia and racism.

Parliament passed a resolution calling on all EU countries to toughen their laws to deal with hate crimes. The vote was 301 in favor to 161 against with 102 abstentions. Most of the abstentions came from from former Soviet states.

The resolution also calls on the Council of Europe to approve a proposal that has languished since 2001 that would explicitly ban "homophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and other types of offences motivated by phobia or hatred based on ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, religion or other irrational grounds."

In addition the resolution urges, but falls short of requiring, all member states to effectively implement anti-discrimination directives and calls for Member States which fail to do so to be brought before the Court of Justice.

May we send our huddled masses to thee?
Nearly all of us speak English and/or Spanish...

And all those fine museums and culture, let alone Tuscany and Provence. Hmmm. Where's my passport...

alas, i can not walk away from the atrocity we have let be unleashed on the most vulnerable here, and the world.

must keep on. you too, over there, please!! you're doing it!!

thank you for the welcome there, though! i could change my mind, some day.


peace and solidarity!

:hi:

in these trying times. gift!!

:hi:


peace and solidarity, always!!

a real civilization.