The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has been accused of hypocrisy and anti-Catholic animus after it overturned a fine and jail sentence imposed on a feminist activist who interrupted a Mass while topless and “aborted” Jesus on the altar before urinating on the floor.
Eloïse Bouton was bare-breasted and painted in pro-choice slogans all over her body when, in December 2013, she interrupted Christmas carols at Paris’ famous Madeleine church and protested the Catholic Church’s teachings against abortion by simulating an abortion of Jesus Fox News reported.
The sickening display saw the deranged Ukranian feminist wearing a crown of thorns and a blue veil, mocking Christ’s passion and the Virgin Mary while carrying slices of Ox liver mimicking the remains an aborted baby.
The Ukrainian group Femen, which Bouton used to be a member of, later celebrated the act on social media, writing “Christmas is cancelled!” and that “the holy mother Eloïse has just aborted the embryo of Jesus on the altar of the Madeleine according to Fox.
Bouton was sentenced to a month in prison and fined €2,000. A ruling upheld by France’s highest court however an opinion rendered Oct. 13, the Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled that by punishing Bouton for her display, France violated the article of the European Convention on Human Rights that protects freedom of expression.
ECHR ordered France to pay Bouton €9,800 for moral damages, legal costs and expenses.
However, many have been quick to point out that the ECHR has upheld convictions and fines imposed on individuals who offended members of other religions in much less extreme examples, particularly Islam.
It appears to many, that the ECHR only protects such grotesque provocations and offenses against certain religions, with Catholicism being the faith treated with most disregard.
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