Group Wants God Banned from EU Constitution

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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

by NewsMax Intern Ryan Barry
Feb. 14, 2003

A draft constitution for the European Union that increases the body from 15 to 25 members is generating moral controversy.

The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) argues that due to the “increased secularization of morality and public life,” all references to God should be left out of the preamble, according to a CNSNews.com report this week.

GALHA’s spokesman Terry Sanderson said that “religion is dying throughout Europe and we have to realize that.”

GALHA accuses the Vatican of trying to impose “ultra-conservative and cruel doctrines," and blames the church for the suffering of homosexuals.

Instead the group would like to see the preamble state: “The Union is founded on the principles of secular rule of law: freedom, equality, democracy and pluralism.”

Even top politicians like former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing says that he is against a reference to God as well.

Proponents for the reference to God refer to Europe’s Christian roots and contend that to leave out any reference to God would be “erroneous.”

GALHA and their cohorts apparently don't subscribe to the notion that the principles of “freedom, equality, democracy and pluralism” come from God’s law.

Ryan Barry is a student at St. Joseph's by-the-Sea High School in Staten Island, New York.

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