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Lincoln
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June 10, 2002
Sweden Moves to Criminalize Opposition to Homosexuality
By Bob Kellogg, correspondent
The Swedish government is moving toward prohibiting Christians from voicing biblical positions on issues.
The Swedish Parliament has moved to within one step of changing the nation’s constitution to ban speech or materials opposing homosexuality and any other alternate lifestyles. If the amendment becomes reality, violators could be subject to prison sentences.
Swedish lawmakers narrowly approved the constitutional amendment last week. Annalie Enochson, a Christian member of Parliament, said the homosexual lobby in Sweden is small but powerful. She noted the measure passed with only 56 percent of the vote.
"Usually, if you change the constitution it should be nearly everybody — I mean, it should be about 80 or 90 percent," Enochson said. "Fifty-six is very, very low."
The amendment must be voted on again after elections this September. If it passes again, it would become effective next January. Enochson said under the amendment, Christians could be arrested for speaking out in churches.
"That means people coming from (the homosexual) lobby group could sit in our churches having on the tape recorder and listen to somebody and say, 'What you're saying now is against our constitution.'"
She said anyone convicted of violating the constitutional amendment could spend six months to four years in jail.
Bob Knight, who heads the Culture and Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, predicted the United States will soon have similar laws.
"The Swedish example should be a wake-up call to the rest of the world that the real intent is to criminalize Christianity," Knight said.
Enochson added pro-homosexual activists will soon be lobbying to make homosexual marriages legal in Sweden.
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JohnIII
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Bob Kellogg?
By the way, that is a crap article. Any country is 'within on step' of something, but sometimes it is a very big step. Looks like some people are feeling threatened.
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Richelieu
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Gatineau
Dec 2001
time: 00:20
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Where is the article from ? Link please.
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JohnIII
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Fox, credible? Mwahahaha.
I can't find it on Reuters, either. I give up.
Mark, see what I mean about it being a crap article?
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Lincoln
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okay where is the link...
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JohnIII
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quote:
Originally posted by Kropotkin
Wait, I've found it. It wasn't last week though. It seems to be a law that adds homosexual, bisexual etc to the law against "hets mot folkgrupp". Ie, persecution/agitation against group of people. The same has been done before as it's against the law to persecute and agaitate against jews etc. |
And did your resident Nazis kick up a fuss about that?
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Monk
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I don't think we're in Brønshøj anymore
Jan 1970
time: 06:20
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I checked out some Danish and Swedish sites on homosexuality.
The Swedish Parliament has moved to within one step of changing the nation’s constitution to ban speech or materials opposing homosexuality and any other alternate lifestyles.
Herein lies the error. Like the wise Kropotkin points out so wisely, Sweden isn't moving to ban anything "opposing homosexuality". If this was the case, you could be sure it would be getting actual international attention. They're going to include homosexuality in the category of hate speech. There's a huge difference here. I know Denmark has a similar law, which IIRC was last enforced when a politician expressed his concern "The Muslims who come here are merely waiting until they're strong enough in numbers, before they take over the country and blahblahblah." And of course the hate speech legislation will still apply when the hate comes from a Christian priest in a church.
Lincoln, I checked out the Family.org site, and really... you should get your information from less biased sites, or at least be more critical about what you read. No offense meant. But from the little reading I've done, I'm tempted to say the bible-thumpers yet again prove to the world they haven't got a clue what's going on outside their own back yard, much less in Sweden.
"The real intent is to criminalize Christianity" my ass. I'd like the "journalist" in question to answer me, if Sweden seeks to criminalize Christianity, how that legislation would ever get around the eighty-something percent of the Swedes who are members of the national Protestant church... but I don't think I'd get a serious answer anyway.
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Monk
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I don't think we're in Brønshøj anymore
Jan 1970
time: 06:20
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IIRC there are very very few ultra-right-wingers in Sweden...I could be wrong, though.
There are about ten times as many as in Denmark, despite the fact that Sweden is only roughly twice as big. The common theory is that it's because the new right-wave seems to have passed Sweden by, leaving little room for the aggressive loonies.
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Vesayen
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Apparently these morons didnt learn a lesson about liberty from WW2......
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11-06-2002 23:52
) but it's their right to free speech.
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