Thats French Equality for You
So the French want to follow Canada and make it a "crime" to insult Homosexuals, eh?
Leave it to the Fwench to go overboard in the Politically Correct Dept., while leaving it acceptable to insult women. Where in the Hell do they come up with this stuff?
You could be fined and inprisoned for insulting a Gay person hitting on you. The Gay Community will have field day!
BULLSHIT! this is a direct afront against the Freedom of Speech!!
Anything that *spit* Chirac says, you know is a lie and you can figure the opposite is true. He doesn't care about people getting hurt in hate crimes, he just wants to control the right of free speech.
Someone is on the ball, and calling it like it is.
Lets see: Call a Fwench woman "Whore" - nothing happens, call a gay man "Faggot" and spend a year in jail. That is Fwench equality at it's finest!!
Leave it to the Fwench to screw things up and deny the Freedom of Speech. Merde!!
Mr Minority
A bill that criminalizes "sexist and homophobic" remarks was approved by the French government yesterday, despite criticism from groups noting that insulting women would still be legal.
The legislation, which parliament will consider next month, would make "incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a person on the basis of gender or sexual orientation" punishable by a year in prison and a fine of up to $54,000.
Leave it to the Fwench to go overboard in the Politically Correct Dept., while leaving it acceptable to insult women. Where in the Hell do they come up with this stuff?
You could be fined and inprisoned for insulting a Gay person hitting on you. The Gay Community will have field day!
"This law will put the fight against homophobia on the same level, in terms of possible legal action, as the fight against racism and anti-Semitism," Justice Minister Dominique Perben told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting.
President Jacques Chirac said he hoped the law would "bring to an abrupt end these very serious acts," according to his spokesman.
BULLSHIT! this is a direct afront against the Freedom of Speech!!
Anything that *spit* Chirac says, you know is a lie and you can figure the opposite is true. He doesn't care about people getting hurt in hate crimes, he just wants to control the right of free speech.
The press-freedom watchdog Reporters without Borders criticized the proposal as "a real step backwards" that could stifle opinion, Reuters reported.
Also, two associations representing magazine publishers argued giving special protection to women and sexual minorities was "an open door to other demands that could lead to a total anesthetization of public debate."
Someone is on the ball, and calling it like it is.
The draft bill also came under fire from feminists and teachers groups who contend it creates a legal hierarchy of insults, favoring homosexuals.
The feminist group Chiennes de garde, or Guard Bitches, said it would be dangerous "to send a signal that it is less serious to insult a woman because of her sex than to insult people because of their sexual orientation," according to Reuters.
"Calling someone a dirty dyke or a fag would become a serious insult in legal terms while there would be no punishment for calling someone a whore or a slut," the group wrote in a statement published in the daily Le Monde.
Lets see: Call a Fwench woman "Whore" - nothing happens, call a gay man "Faggot" and spend a year in jail. That is Fwench equality at it's finest!!
Leave it to the Fwench to screw things up and deny the Freedom of Speech. Merde!!
Mr Minority
