by Tony Rucinski, Coalition for Marriage
A Brussels lobby group whose donors include Belgium’s foreign ministry has branded the Coalition for Marriage and our views on man-woman marriage as “contamination”. It wants us and groups like us to be dismantled. Its report, launched in the European Parliament on Monday, names C4M eight times and calls for “the decontamination of Europe”, which it spells out as “the patient dismantling of the anti-gender movement’s actors, its mobilisation and its narratives”.
The group is Forbidden Colours, and the report is The Hate Review. C4M is one of the “actors”. The mobilisation is you. The report calls our petition of almost 670,000 signatures “the largest organised anti-gender petition campaign of the period”, and ranks Britain among “the most heavily contaminated states”.
And their attack is on marriage itself. The report calls “marriage as a union of a man and a woman” part of the “founding language” of the “anti-gender movement” – us – and dismisses a child’s “right to a mother and a father” as merely “claimed”.
The report goes on to say the contamination it finds in us “behaves like a chronic infection that never clears”. Europe has a long and dark history of branding the people it disliked as unclean. It must never go there again, about anyone. Rhetoric like this must be stopped in its tracks.
Nor is this just one angry pressure group. Forbidden Colours lists Belgium’s foreign ministry among its current donors. With that ministry’s support, it set up a network against so-called anti-gender movements across Europe. It has even asked for them to be watched by Belgium’s intelligence services. Last November the European Parliament voted for a review of all current European Union funding to “ensure that no EU funds go towards anti-democratic and anti-gender objectives and projects”, and “anti-gender” is the label this report puts on us.