Here's a nugget I noted before Christmas but did not get round to posting. I think it is worth bringing to your attention. You will remember back in November that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld a complaint by Soile Lautsi, a Finnish woman with Italian citizenship, that her children had to attend a state school that displayed a crucifix in each classroom. She got an order for 5000 euro compensation to be paid by the Italian Government.It seems that this has concentrated the minds of the Italian Constitutional Court which has issued Sentenza N.311 which states that where rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) conflict with provisions of the Italian Constitution, such decrees “lack legitimacy”.
See: Gerard Warner Who'd ha thunk it? Italian Constitutional Court tells ECHR to take a hike, asserts national sovereignty
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It's about time we had something like that; who'd bring it in though?
Congratulations must go to the Italians though, firmly giving a salute of the two fingered variety!
Thank you Father. That's very good news.
That is good news indeed. Congratulations to the Italians for defending their national and Christian identity.
A ray of light in the darkness? There is some semblance of common sense out there after all it seems!
The EUrocrats better watch out. This is but a small skirmish with Christ-ians and should be a clear warning to 'BACK OFF!!!!'
The ECHR shouldn't have even entertained this idiotic woman's rantings and wasted so much tax payers money. Whichever of their minions brought this to court should themselves be brought to 'book' and made to pay for such an outrage.
Should the anti-Catholic ECHR try any more 'devilish' inspired shennanigans they'll get more than a 'Sentenza' next time round.
GOOD! Bravo! Forza! It's very important that one of the "big players" in the EU (yes, yes, I know the ECHR isn't connected, but still) has effectively told that crowd to go take a... walk. Despite unctuous protestations to the contrary, size actually is what counts in the Euro setup. A smaller country like Ireland, for example, would have been effectively bullied into acquiesence if any similar action were taken here. Then again, our supine spineless pols would have rushed to implement it anyway, doubtless chastising themselves for their sins against the zeitgeist.
I believe some bunch of libs is currently introducing an action in relation to our constitutional prohibition on abortion. The water's heating up... many of the frogs are so far oblivious, it seems.
I've got a better idea. If you move to Italy and find you don't like Italian culture such as Catholicism, move back to Finland and never be bothered with it again.
(Interestingly the Finnish Lutheran church has always used the crucifix but Finns don't go to church any more.)
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