thoughts in and out of season
The possible EU dispute with the bible (see below) shows the problem with the attempt to set up an international community among people with very different views by agreeing on a list of basic human rights and basing the community on that.
The problem is that whatever principle is authoritative in the highest political community … More ...
Distributing the bible could be a criminal offense under a proposed EU antiracism law.
Apparently, Le Pen said on one occasion:
… More ...Do you want me to say it is a revealed truth that everyone has to believe? That it’s a moral obligation? I say there are historians who are debating these questions. I am not saying that the gas chambers did not exist. I couldn’t see them myself. I
Strange: in the land that gave us Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park, getting up on a soapbox, quoting the Bible and saying “stop homosexuality” is now a criminal offense.