"The European Union continues to favour the homosexual movement's program at the expense of national sovereignty and religious rights. A new law coming into effect today effectively orders the countries of the Union to "facilitate" homosexual partners who have "married" in their home countries and want to live or travel in countries where their unions are not legally recognized.

...Although only five EU member states have ratified the decision, European justice commissioner Franco Frattini warned national governments that the law was "immediately applicable" - whether ratified or not.

...Frattini is a former leader in the Italian Socialist party and a long time member of Silvio Berlusconi's government. He was appointed to the EU to replace Rocco Buttiglione who, as a believing Catholic, was opposed to the homosexual movement's legal inroads in European politics.

Buttlglione said the EU is advancing a leftist 'soft totalitarianism,' that 'wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.'"

"Where individualism reigns, society ceases to exist.  Nowhere is this more evident in the beginning of this new century than in the transformation of sexual morality in Western "Christendom."  One of the most fundamental imperatives for living beings is the perpetuation of the species, of the race.  It is contrary to natural law to suggest that the woman, the bearer of the new generation, should be able to dispose of it at will without any restraint by her spouse or by her parents.  The traditional covenants, marriage and family, mean nothing to the individualist.  The elevation of abortion to a fundamental right through Roe v. Wade and a series of concurring Supreme Court decisions breaks totally with the biblical and natural principles of reproduction as a human duty.

'Be fruitful and multiply' is God's first command to human beings (Genesis 1:28).  Homosexual behavior does not reproduce, and abortion negates reproduction that has already taken place.  A society that not merely tolerates but extols and praises both as our society does has clearly repudiated the reality of nature as well as the teachings of religion.  No animal species exchanges reproductive sexual behavior for sterility. Only Homo sapiens are clever enough to see this as a "right" to be enjoyed and praised.  Throughout the Western world, the rate of human reproduction is not sufficient to preserve the society.  The individual has no duty to society, no more than to God.  She or he is autonomous, a law unto self.  Individualism taken to this extreme is solipsistic.  When solipsistic man dies, he dies alone.  There is no one to mourn him, for there will be no one to come after him."

Since the scandal surrounding British poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, homosexuality has claimed no literary figure more prominent than the 20th-century Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden (1907-1973).  However, after considerable personal experience, Auden delivered a remarkably negative judgment on this kind of sexual activity. 

According to a newly published critical study, Auden made decidedly negative comments about homosexuality during a 1947 conversation with Alan Ansen: "I've come to the conclusion that it's wrong to be queer, but that's a long story.  Oh, the reasons are comparatively simple.  In the first place, all homosexual acts are acts of envy.  In the second, the more you're involved with someone, the more trouble arises, and affection shouldn't result in that. It shows something's wrong somewhere." 

Nor did Auden's perspective on homosexuality grow more favorable in the years that followed.  In 1969, just four years before his death, Auden wrote candidly, "Few, if any, homosexuals can honestly boast that their sex-life has been happy."