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Comment from UTT:

Understand The Times has been following the animal rights-human rights debate for some years. This recent news item indicating that lawmakers in Europe are granting animals more rights than humans is no surprise in light of evolutionary indoctrination that leads to an adoration of the creation.

While animals are part of the creation that God made, they are still animals and not humans. According to Romans chapter one, when humans willingly reject the overwhelming evidence that God has created, there will be a natural tendency to worship the creation rather than the Creator.

While this pattern has existed throughout history in various parts of the world, we are living at a time when nature worship is now becoming mainstream worldwide and consistent with a revival of ancient Babylonianism predicted for the last times in the Bible.

While it is right to protect animals from abuse and cruelty by man, the animal rights movement seems to be more concerned about the well-being and rights of animals than the well being and rights of humans. Especially when it comes to humans that are still in their mother's womb that can be cruelly murdered in the name of human rights.

June 27 - Socialists and green party lawmakers grant rights to apes not enjoyed by humans

Article: Creation / Evolution - Creation - Evolution Debate

Madrid, Jun 27, 2008 / 01:08 pm (CNA).- The civil rights watchdog website HazteOir.org reported this week that Spain's Socialist Party and the Green Party of Catalonia have grated orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas and other apes the "inalienable right" of "companions of humanity."

The Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Fishing of the Spanish Congress approved a proposal that would press the Zapatero administration to support the Great Ape project in order to guarantee apes the right to life, liberty and the right not to be tortured.

Congress is pressing the Spanish government to declare its support for the Great Ape Project within the next four months as well as to promote it in the rest of the EU countries. The Great Ape Project aims "to preserve and protect from abuse and death these genetic companions of humanity."

According to HazteOir.org, the four purposes of the project include the prohibiting of experimentation and research on apes that harms them and is of no benefit, the establishing of strict conditions for their captivity, the prohibiting of captivity for commercial or entertainment purposes and the establishing of serious penalties for cases of commerce, illegal captivity or abuse of apes.

Raquel Arias, a spokeswoman for the Popular Party, said she was embarrassed that Congress would "try to make apes legally equal to humans" while people everywhere are suffering from an economic crisis. She said the project is an attempt grant apes the moral and legal protection that only human beings currently enjoy."