May 2013, United Kingdom
According to section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, it is criminal offence to use “insulting words or behaviour” which is “likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.” Originally enacted to combat football hooliganism, this provision has led to the arrest and prosecution of many Christian street preachers in recent years. Read more ...
May 2013, Sweden
Swedish penal law contains the crime “agitation against a national or ethnic group,” a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 2 years in prison. The Swedish government charged four activists who wanted “start a debate about the lack of objectivity in the education in Swedish schools” by distributing leaflets on the „homosexual agenda.“ Read more ...
April 2013, Germany
In an appeal to the media in Germany, Mr Berger, writer and theologian, claims that people critical of the homosexual life style must not be allowed to voice their thoughts in talkshows any more. In the name of human dignity and human rights, critics ought to be silenced. Read more ...
January 2013, Italy
When Pope Benedict XVI gave his weekly Sunday address on January 13, 2013, on St. Peter's Square, four women of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen took off their shirts to reveal the slogan they had written on their bare skin, "In Gay We Trust". This took place while the pope lead the Angelus prayer. The women screamed "Homophobes shut up" as they were taken away from St Peter's square by the Italian police.
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January 2013, Italy
On the 12th of January about two hundred homosexual activist demonstrated in front of the Bishop of Trieste’s home effectively barricading him in for the afternoon. In the January edition of the Diocesan newspaper he had published an article restating the Church’s teaching on homosexual unions. Read more ...