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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fight against homophobia in Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120522.19.2-459-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bernd Posselt2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CULT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, first of all, I would like to say to Ms Ludford that our group will not decide until this evening whether it will support this resolution. As I listen to today’s debate, I am starting to think that we will not be supporting it for the following reason. I am a strong opponent of homophobia and a strong supporter of human rights. However, there are no LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights. I think this is nonsense. It is just ideology. There are human rights and, of course, we must fight for human rights, including those of homosexuals, and we must ensure that they are not discriminated against. This is why we have an anti-discrimination paragraph in our Treaty, anti-discrimination legislation and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. In cases where this legislation is not complied with, and I do not know of any such cases in the EU, then of course it is necessary to take legal proceedings. This can and should be done. However, that is not what we are talking about. We have been speaking here the whole time about so-called gay marriage. You may be in favour of it or you may be opposed to it, but that has nothing to do with human rights and nothing at all to do with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The charter explicitly states that every Member State is free to decide how it defines marriage and the family. This was specifically included in the charter to enable states such as Germany and many others, including Hungary, to say that marriage is a contract between a man and a woman. That is a right which is specifically guaranteed in our Charter of Fundamental Rights. You cannot lump that together with homophobia. You can criticise it in political terms, but you cannot link it with dreadful events like those instigated in Russia by Mr Putin, which I also condemn. During the last part-session in Strasbourg, I warned this House about the ideological misuse of human rights. Human rights are too precious to be lumped together with socio-political propaganda. For this reason, I am horrified at the tone of many speakers in today’s debate. I am opposed to breaches of human rights, I am opposed to homophobia, but I am also opposed to ideological propaganda."@en1
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