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Gay ‘marriage’ push aims to ‘recreate society’ and marginalise Christianity: Archbishop of Glasgow

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David Cameron's picture on the 10 Downing Street website (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) GLASGOW/STRASSBURG, March 27, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Creating “gay marriage,” is an attempt to rewrite the natural law and “recreate society,” says Mario Conti , Archbishop of Glasgow . The bishop’s strong comments as the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that there is no such thing as a “right” to “gay marriage” in the European Convention on Human Rights , a revelation that has yet to put a damper on the UK government ’s enthusiasm for changing the legal definition of marriage. “It is certainly not the role of law to recreate our society according to passing fashions and ideologies, nor to redefine nature whether in terms of persons and their rights or its natural institutions,” Archbishop Conti said in a homily at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh this weekend. The prelate said that current plans to alter the definition of marriage, promoted by the Conservative government of David Ca

Criticize homosexuality in Sweden and go to jail?: No problem for European court

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Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Criticize homosexuality in Sweden and go to jail: No problem for European rights court The four men were convicted in 2006 by the District Court, which ruling was overturned on appeal but later upheld by the Supreme Court in a narrow 5-3 decision. Anyone challenging the homosexualist agenda in public in Sweden can be sent to prison, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that this does not constitute any violation of rights. In 2004, the Swedish government charged a group of pamphleteers with “agitation against a national or ethnic group ,” a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 2 years in prison. The four appealed to the ECHR, which  ruled  on February 9th that their application was “manifestly ill-founded”. The court said that the conviction constituted no violation of Article 10 ( Freedom of Expression ) of the European Convention on Human Rights . It was a “legitimate and proportional interference” with the applicant