French anti-gay marriage group "fails to defeat EU gay rights report"
Manif pour tous', the French movement formed in opposition to France's legalisation of gay marriage last year, failed today to defeat a European Parliament report calling for discrimination protection to be extended to sexual orientation. The movement had conducted a high-profile campaign against the report and cooperated with other groups across Europe to deliver a petition with 200,000 signatures to MEPs.
The non-binding 'EU roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity', prepared by Austrian Green MEP Ulrike Lunacek, was passed with 394 votes in favour and 196 against. It calls on the European Commission to adopt a roadmap or a strategy on combating discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Such strategies already exist in the field of Roma integration, discrimination on the basis of disability and gender equality.
The petition circulated by the manif pour tous wrote that "if adopted, the Lunacek report will give EU institutions and Member States no choice but to incorporate the homosexual agenda into public policy making."
“Some argued that this would give special privileges to LGBT people,” said Lunacek after the vote. “But holding a partner's hand without fear of being beaten up is no privilege—it's a human right.”
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2014/february/-manif-pour-tous-fails-to-defeat-eu-gay-rights-report/79529.aspx
The French anti-gay marriage group wants to stop the EU from forcing member countries to "incorporate the homosexual agenda". Sounds like that could have been written by a fundamentalist teabagger from the US.
