1 million Christians sign EU religion plea
Written on November 24, 2004
From the Telegraph, more than a million Christians have signed and will deliver a petition to acknowledge Europe’s Christian heritage in the preamble to the European Union’s constitution.
Refusing to accept a secular “fait accompli” from Brussels, a Christian coalition is demanding that each EU state publish its version of the constitution’s preamble, with references to God if desired.
Already armed with 1,149,000 signatures and with thousands more pouring in from Holland since the murder of the film-maker Theo van Gogh, the group claims that most states want some reference to Christianity but were blocked by France.
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An EU official said: “These Christians could at least have the good grace to accept that they lost the argument.”