Update on the traditional churches vs human rights law saga.
Some complaints by the churches have been implemented by the government, but the churches are still not satisfied. The article about free expression of one’s sexual orientation is really pissing them off.
Here’s a bit from what they have to say in a new written statement:
”..the right to express sexual orientation is unacceptable, for it would provide an insult to public moral, religious beliefs, the right of privacy and family life, which are all categories protected by Serbian Constitution and the European Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Every sexual orientation is private -one cannot introduce through the back door the rights which are not guaranteed by the Serbian Constitution.”
This is the official statement by the traditional Churches in Serbia. Full statement can be read currently only via Google’s cache because it was (temporarily?) taken of the site in the meantime.
While the public moral is still so exposed, vulnerable and unprotected, I’m using the opportunity to play this great song by Love Hunters, with the video from the soundtrack for the movie Marble Ass by Zelimir Zilnik:
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Back door? Not guaranteed by the Constitution? What are they talking about?
Article 46, paragraph 1:
“The freedom of thought and expression shall be guaranteed, as well as the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through speech, writing, art or in some other manner.”
In Italy we face the same problem everyday: the Vatican demands all its points of wiews (dogmas) to be implemented by legislation.
None is strong enough to oppose this moral dictatorship; The strong majority of italians doesn’t agree with Church’s stances, but our MPs follow them likedope sheeps.
After last pope’s bullshit in Africa (“Hiv can be beaten with chastity, using condoms is not only unmoral but even useless”) the only important EU Government that remained silent was the Italian.
My country appears more and more similar to a Taliban state, and ne mi se svidja..
@BEPPE
Is there an ongoing issue about the interfearance of the Church in governmental affairs in Italy?
Maybe the solution would be to give the Orthodox Church a state of their own, like in the Vatican case? That way they could decide to implement any law they want on their own teritorry.
The question remains, what to do with other churches and religious communities disapproving this anti-discrimination bill.
The last one was about the “right” of everybody in order to choose not to be kept alive when the health situation is irreversible (coma etc).
We know that issue as “biological will”, cos it should be possible to give the will about that in advance.
There’s no a law on it, so doctors are not bound considering someone’s wish.
The case break out few months ago, when a man achieved by a sentence of the italian supreme court the right to interrupt the feeding to his daughter, brain dead since 17 years.
The parliament, under vatican’s enormous pressure tried to pass a new bill in three days (this was the time left before the woman would die).
Finally the woman died, for Vatican this was a murder.
Chatolic MP are in strong majority in our parliament, though they don’t represent anymore the majority of the society… (and they don’t follow at all religious principles, they just pretend doing so..)
Yet there are many others examples.
The problem is the italian mentality: almost every day the first news on tv is the pope’s speech.
It’s ridicolous…
I was told that this Twitter lark is wonderful for breaking news. I come along here to find out whether this story about Mladic possibly being arrested in Mombasa has any legs and there’s not even a mention on either of your Twitter feeds. Seems this modern technology viral citizen journalism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Back to square one.
“Staff members at the Whitesands Hotel told The Associated Press,
however, that he was Croatian Igor Mejaski, who ran a water-sports shop at the hotel and had been in the country for many years. They said a group of plainclothes police arrived at the resort and arrested the man in the company of hotel management before whisking him away in a convoy of unmarked cars.
Mejaski’s mother, Katica Mejaski, said in Croatia that he had been in Kenya for 23 years and has “nothing to do with the war or some war crimes.”
She also said her son had recent health problems and coupled with the prospect of a bad tourist season, “the last thing he needed is to be wrongly arrested as a war criminal.”
Interpol said the man’s fingerprints did not match Mladic’s. Olga Kavran, spokeswoman for the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said that “the man arrested in Kenya was neither Mladic nor (Goran) Hadzic” the former Croatian Serb leader who is the only other remaining fugitive from the tribunal.”
There are many other users on twitter, Owen, you just have to use the twitter search. Contrary to the popular belief, I’m not on the internet 24/7.
BTW, on topic: the anti discrimination law was passed yesterday.
Viktor, I know you’re not superhuman, but I did expect the rest of the creme de la creme of Belgrade information sources to be in your sidebar!
If i out all those sources in the sidebar, it will be impossible to follow and too crowded. Currently the only channel in my sidebar is #belgrade channel, that means that whenever someone uses #belgrade in their tweets, it will show up there. It was unlikely that anyone would use #belgrade and #mladic in same tweet, though. But on twitter, a lot of people from Serbia tweeted about this as the news unfolded, albeit mostly in Serbian.
Well, anyway it was a damp squib. And who knows, maybe next time, and before too long. And congratulations on the anti-discrimination law passing. That’s a big step towards normalisation with the EU.
Thanks. I think it’s a big step towards normalisation, period.
Looks like an interesting movie. Never heard of it. I want to see it.
I watched this movie last night at Dom Omladine.
It was great!