EU Leaders Sign First International Treaty Guaranteeing Gay Civil Rights

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Source: www.365gay.com

EU Leaders Sign First International Treaty Guaranteeing Gay Civil Rights

(Strasbourg, France) The European Union has become the first international body to have a treaty containing explicit language prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of signed Wednesday at a ceremony in Strasbourg, seat of the European Parliament.

Parliamentary President Hans-Gert Poettering, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and the current head of the Council of EU member states, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates put their signatures to the document amid cheers from some member states and jeers from others.

Britain and Poland had wanted the charter put to a referendum and have refused to sign onto the document.

The Charter brings together into a single document all of the separate EU laws and regulations on human-rights but despite the fanfare it has no legal force. That will only happen when the parliaments of all 27 member states ratify a concord called the Lisbon Treaty that reforms the way the EU operates.






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[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Meanwhile, back in the States....

We have every last one of the leading Presidiential candidates telling the nation that gay people should not ever have the rights associated with marriage. :cry:

[NMMNG]

2. And the bigots collective heads are exploding

Because this infringes on their "right" to discriminate according to their "deeply held beliefs". :eyes: