Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-01-Speech-3-105"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-04-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equal treatment of persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090401.14.3-105"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-04-01-Speech-3-1062
lpv:speaker	lp:Jim Allister2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I will be voting against this report and this proposed directive for three reasons. First of all, I dissent from the belief that the EU, rather than national governments, should be legislating on these issues, believing every Member State is best placed to decide if it needs to strengthen such legislation. If ever there was a subsidiarity issue, this should be it. My second reason is that the new offence of harassment has the alarming prospect of, in fact, curbing the rights in respect of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, particularly for those who proclaim a Christian message. Christians preaching the gospel, particularly in a public place to people of other faiths who take offence and who claim it is an assault on their dignity, could be breaching this law. Likewise, defending and promoting a biblical approach to heterosexual marriage could allow litigious gay rights activists to claim harassment. The third reason is that the measures within the directive are disproportionate and inadequately balanced. It compels the Christian printer, for example, to accept an order to print material which offends his religious beliefs, whereas he should be free to conduct his business according to his conscience. Without essential balancing mechanisms, this directive will become an instrument which in fact creates discrimination. Thus, to me, it is an unnecessary directive infringing basic rights, particularly of people of faith and conscience, and illustrates all that is over-reaching, meddling and wrong-headed within the EU."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Traditional Unionist (2007-12-18--2009-07-13)3 member; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Jim Allister (NI )."1
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