European gay activists fail in first bid to block grassroots pro-marriage effort

May 3, 2016 by

by Steve Weatherbe, LifeSite:

The first attempt to stop a citizens’ initiative to get the European Union to endorse tradition marriage has failed.

The “Mum, Dad & Kids” initiative must first gather 1 million signatures by December 11, and then be approved by the European Commission for submission to the European Parliament, and then be approved by a majority of MEPs.

As hard as that is likely to prove, the powerful, publicly-funded European branch  of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA Europe) recently requested that the Court of Justice of the European Union overturn the European Commission’s decision to register the initiative in the first place.

But the CJEU has summarily dismissed the request. As the conservative Agenda Europe website has reported, the court declared the request “manifestly inadmissible.” Such decisions by the European Commission are final and not appealable.

But the ILGA has other plans to derail the initiative before it builds up steam. These were inadvertently revealed in a private memo to affiliated organizations throughout Europe posted by mistake on a Northern Ireland LBGT website last month.

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