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I voted against the report on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union 2004-2008 authored by the Italian MEP Giusto Catania, as the author has not so much presented a description of the situation over the past four years as expressed his own opinions, suggesting and even attempting to impose upon Member States legislation that is exclusively within their competence. I do not believe that the countries of the European Union can be forced to issue legislation that their public finds unacceptable.
The very definition of ‘marriage’ should be reserved for unions between women and men. Mr Catania’s proposal will not so much lead to tolerance of homosexual behaviour (which I support), but to discrimination against fundamental biological, that is, heterosexual, relations. Essentially, we need to ask whether the aim is actually to restrict the rights of the family in its traditional meaning, that is, mother, father and children. This makes the highly personal issues relating to a person’s sex life into politicised acts, even if it is through public demonstration of one’s homosexuality, for example through so-called ‘love parades’.
In my view, this report, by using formulations such as ‘reproductive rights’, which in the present meaning of international law include abortion on demand, opens the floodgates to practices of this kind."@en1
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