The below is an article that is a must read. I have posted the entire article and one should – if you have the time – read the entire thing. Enjoy while contemplating
Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
Secularist
By Paul Belien
[posted] 2007-06-23
Last week, a German court sentenced a 55-year old Lutheran pastor to one year in jail for “Volksverhetzung” (incitement of the people) because he compared the killing of the unborn in contemporary
Without legalized abortion the number of German children would increase annually by at least 150,000 – which is the number of legal abortions in birth dearth
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.
Volksverhetzung is a crime which the Nazis often invoked against their enemies and which contemporary
Indeed, next Tuesday, the Council of Europe (CoE),
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.” The report adds that the acceptance of the science of evolutionism “is crucial to the future of our societies and our democracies.”
“Creationism, born of the denial of the evolution of species through natural selection, was for a long time an almost exclusively American phenomenon,” the report says.
“Today creationist theories are tending to find their way into
According to the CoE report,
“While most curricula in Europe today unashamedly teach evolution as a recognised scientific theory, the same does not apply to the
Though one may disagree with people who take the Book of Genesis literally (believing that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh), surely secularist political organizations telling people what they may or may not believe, constitute a far greater threat to human rights than religious institutions telling their faithful how to vote. In the voting booth people are free to do what they like, whilst in contemporary
In
In the latest issue of the Dutch conservative magazine Bitter Lemon the Dutch author Erik van Goor writes that European courts are silencing conservative and orthodox citizens. Freedom of speech no longer exist, says van Goor.
“While many in the West still idolize the second-hand fighters for free speech, such as [Ayaan] Hirsi Ali and Theo van Gogh, the true victims of curtailment are deliberately kept under wraps. Hirsi Ali, [Pim] Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh were not curtailed by the state or by court, Johannes Lerle is. The former voiced mere opinions – expressions of a public opinion which one may or may not value or believe. The latter – Dr Lerle – shows that what is at stake is not merely opinions, but a moral order which is being questioned; a reality of life and death which is at risk.”
Hirsi Ali, Fortuyn and van Gogh did not defend
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Thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it. I merely took this article – as noted – from another site. I do not have time to check each story individually in a single article. I will post the link to the retracted section for people to see, I will also post it below:
Please note that recently received information confirms portions of this report in error. While Pastor Lerle was previously convicted and jailed for anti-abortion activities his current imprisonment stems only from charges related to holocaust denial.
It seems people are getting the two stories mixed up. If the pastor truly denies the holocaust, then I would question his sanity and maybe look into whether he is a neo-Nazi, Muslim, or John Bircher. Maybe he will put in a vote for Ron Paul.