The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) was set up in 2007 with a wide-reaching mandate to provide expert advice and “scientific information” about human rights implementation across the 27 EU states. Even though it is financed by the EU, it operates like a pressure group for a particular interest.

Dr Gudrun Kugler, a Christian lawyer from Vienna, Austria, managed to get herself on to the Advisory Panel of the Fundamental Rights Agency’s Fundamental Rights Platform.

One of its officials told her that he spent three months dealing with objections from leftwing NGOs to her membership because of an article she had written against gay adoption. Eventually, he came to the conclusion that she had not “violated fundamental human rights”. This detail revealed how obsessed with LGBT rights and objectives most of the members of the FRA are, even though most European states ban such adoptions.

Dr Kugler represents the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe, an NGO based in Austria, and her experience soon showed her that she has an uphill task to overcome the suspicion of the comrades in FRA.

When she presented her report on intolerance against Christians in the European Union last April, the hostility of the audience was made clear on a number of points, including the following:

“Let us agree”, I said in my workshop, “that no one should go to prison for respectfully stating an opinion which does not advocate violence.” “No!” angry voices shouted back at me. “People should go to prison for what they say if it is a negative comment against a vulnerable minority group, especially when they are in a position of power!” Heavy nodding of FRA staff accompanied this outburst.

Next, I mentioned the case of a Berlin pharmacist who refuses to sell the morning after pill. Radical feminists smashed his windows and wrecked the pharmacy. “Rightly so”, said a member of FRA’s Fundamental Rights Platform. “He violated the right of access to medical care!” More heavy nodding from the audience.

Have the nodders forgotten the breaking of shop windows owned by a hated social group in Berlin in November 1938? Such support of European Union human rights advocates for this kind of rough justice is disturbing. Let’s leave aside the fact that the morning after pill is not a medical remedy, nor does one pharmacy that refuses to dispense it in the city of Berlin make it remotely “inaccessible”. What of the pharmacist’s right of conscience?

It’s unsettling to know that your taxes support this kind of human rights advocacy.
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