Writing here, Mary Ellen Synon documents another BBC smear..
“The EU’s new foreign secretary, Baroness Ashton, was at the European Parliament today, being questioned by MEPs. Since she will also be a new vice-president of the Commission as well as ‘High Representative for Foreign Affairs,’ (no, I still can’t believe it either) she had to submit to questioning like all the other members of the new Commission.
The BBC on-line news service reported on her appearance at the parliament. They had absolutely nothing bad to say about this unelected New Labour Nobody.
But the BBC couldn’t resist the chance to use the story to fire off a drive-by smear at Rocco Buttiglione, a Roman Catholic professor of political science, a former professor of philosophy and a former Christian Democrat Minister for EU Affairs in the Italian government.”
Yes, I find it striking that his actual words were “‘I may think of homosexuality as a sin, but it has no effect unless I say it is a crime. The state has no right to stick its nose in this area…The rights of homosexuals should be defended on the same basis as the rights of all other European citizens. But I don’t accept that homosexuals are a category deserving of special protection.” He specifically asserted that gay people had the same rights as other citizens.
It’s a thought crime. Of course the intellectual fascists at the BBC don’t like people who hold unapproved thoughts.