Hmmmm.....would Jennifer Lynch love this law?

Soon it may be illegal in Europe to say anything critical of either Islam or homosexual behavior.

(But open season on Christianity will be a government-funded free-for-all, I am sure):

Harassment, as vaguely defined in the directive, allows an individual to accuse someone of discrimination merely for expressing something the individual allegedly perceives as creating an “offensive environment.” The definition is so broad that anyone who feels intimidated or offended can easily bring legal action against those whom he feels are responsible. Moreover, the directive shifts the burden of proof onto the accused, who has to prove the negative, i.e. demonstrate that he or she did not create an environment which intimidated or offended the complainant. If the accused fails to do so, he or she can be sentenced to paying an unlimited amount of compensation for “harassment.”

The European press has mostly remained silent on the topic so far, but Christian congregations are extremely worried. Last August, Mgr. Andrew Summersgill issued a statement on behalf of the Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland, rejecting the directive because it would require people and organizations to act against their beliefs. “Homosexual groups campaigning for same-sex marriage may declare themselves to be offended by the presentation of the Catholic Church’s moral teaching on marriage, an atheist may be offended by religious pictures in an art gallery, or a Muslim may be offended by any picture representing the human form,” said Mgr. Summersgill.

“When providing a service (such as a hotel room) or selling goods (such as books) in the EU, businesses and their employees will have to provide them or risk being sued, irrespective of whether they find themselves facilitating sexual ethics contrary to their religious beliefs or helping promote another religion,” say the legal experts of the British organizations Christian Concern for Our Nation (CCFON) and Christian Legal Centre. Organizers of a Christian conference, for instance, will be legally obliged to make double rooms available to homosexual and unmarried couples as well as to normally married couples.

This is what Section 13 would have done if Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn hadn't gone nuclear, as it were.

But there is lots of work to be done, because I sure got the impression from the smiling Jennifer Lynch last Monday that for her equality trumps. And the kind of equality she is speaking of is not equality of opportunity and equality based on a Judeo-Christian conception of human dignity as made in the image of God. No, it's something more new-fangled and modern than that. It's equality of outcome, where people like her are needed to nicely socially engineer society and enforce political correctness so that everyone comes out the same in the end.

Thankfully, many gays and Muslims are waking up to how draconian this kind of legislation is. We stand with them.

They want to be part of a free, pluralistic society where we can be ourselves in the public square, agree to disagree, and argue from our various standpoints for the common good WITHOUT FEARING FOR OUR LIVES or the HEAVY HAND OF STATE POWER.