Photo ©Nicolas Maeterlinck/BELGA Patrick Haeck has spent six years getting his case against the Jehovah’s Witnesses to court
The Belgian chapter of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handed a €96,000 fine by a court in Ghent for discrimination and incitement to hate. It sets a precedent in Belgium that religious doctrine cannot be used as an excuse to break human rights laws.
The ruling was the end of a six-year struggle by ex-member Patrick Haeck for recognition of the religion’s practices, which he described as cruel to the point of leading to suicide, as discriminatory. Fifteen other former members and the federal centre for equal opportunities, Unia, eventually signed on to the case.
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Willibrordus van der Weide
Patrick Haeck not show any Faith to God. He is acting as a godless man. So why he go to Court when he turn off of God?
The ex JW’s should not go away from God and reset there believes.
The Governing Body of the Watchtower Incorporated has nothing to do with God? Yes
They are the same false teachings as all man made religions today.
The Court decision was a rightful.