Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-04-26-Speech-4-136"
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"Mr President, it goes without saying – and I do not know anybody in this House who will beg to differ – that discrimination of homosexuals on account of their orientation is unacceptable in our Member States. This does not mean, though, that the right of deeply religious people to express their opinions freely should be called into question on account of the suffocating atmosphere of political correctness and intellectual terrorism that is taking hold in this House. As Mr Claeys briefly mentioned yesterday, a freedom of speech phobia is beginning to set in here, an irrational fear of letting people express their opinions freely. This is one phobia we must fight with all our might, because this resolution is overshooting the mark. Where in the past, debates on homophobia were held on many occasions, these days, it is more about everyone indulging in a bit of Poland-bashing. After all, as in the Geremek issue on which nobody spoke with any authority yesterday, this is how the Left-wing inquisition on the issue of so-called homophobia in Poland took the moral high ground without any knowledge of the subject, or intellectual honesty for that matter. This is why I have voted against this resolution."@en1
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