New revelations on Britain’s absurd “Equality and Human Rights Commission”

By J.C. von Krempach, J.D. | April 11, 2011

There is increasing criticism against the controversial “Equality and Human Rights Commission”, which has become notorious for pouring British taxpayers’ money into frivolous lawsuits filed by gay rights activists.

For example, ECHR has financed the lawsuit of two homosexuals against a hotel whose stated policy it is to let twin bedrooms only to married couples. In a widely reported but controversial decision, a court in Bristol has found this policy to be “discriminatory” and orderd the owners an elderly couple that was already struggling with debt, to pay £3.600 as a compensation to their gay double-income-no-kids “victims”. But the ECHR was not satisfied with this outcome and planned to finance a further lawsuit through which the “victims” claimed a higher compensation. (Quite obviously, when litigants have no risk of their own, they will loose all self-restraint…) Public criticism has now led the ECHR to withdraw its support. But the case is nevertheless interesting: it shows into which direction things might develop in all EU Member States, should the controversial EU “Anti-Discrimination Directive” ever be adopted.

Against this background, one feels unsure whether the waste of money, which is another reproach that has recently been voiced against the ECHR, is not actually something we should be relieved about: given their highly questionable agenda, it is maybe better if they lack efficiency in pursuing it…

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