Posted on 02/19/2006 9:35:46 AM PST by lizol
No Brokeback in Russia: Moscow Gives Thumbs Down to Gay Pride Parade
Jim Kouri February 19, 2006
An opinion poll last year showed 43 per cent of Russians believed gay men should be incarcerated. So it's no surprise that plans to stage Russia's first gay pride parade have been vetoed by Moscow's city government on the grounds that the idea has caused "outrage" in society, according to the European press including the British newspaper The Independent.
Representatives from Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's said they city government would not even consider an application for a parade, prompting Russia's gay community to threaten legal action in the European Court of Human Rights, even though Russian is not part of the European Union.
Gay and lesbian groups in Russia continue campaigning for permit to stage the country's first gay pride event on Saturday, May 27. That date commemorates the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia in 1993.
But the gay-lesbian parade coalition's plans have drawn a furious reaction from religious leaders, and it's even been condemned as "suicidal" by other gay activists .
Chief Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, a leading Islamic cleric in Russia, warned that Muslims would stage violent protests if the march went ahead.
"If they come out on to the streets anyway they should be flogged. Any normal person would do that - Muslims and Orthodox Christians alike ... [The protests] might be even more intense than protests abroad against those controversial cartoons," said Tadzhuddin
The cleric said the Koran taught that homosexuals should be killed because their lifestyle spells the extinction of the human race and said that gays had no human rights.
The Russian Orthodox Church has called it "the propaganda of sin". Bishop Daniil of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk yesterday condemned the plans as a "cynical mockery" and likened homosexuality to leprosy.
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Good for Moscow. They have a greater sense of decency than most all American Cities.
The Russians are right about this.
Let gays do what they want, in private.
But do NOT let them parade it around and try to establish the normalcy.
Kinda puts the skid-marks on the poofters little delusional world of a Socialist Utopia.
Put them in prison. That will keep them from having gay sex.
Commies know gay stuff is wrong, look at the commie goals of the 60's they were and are still trying to to use on America, they list "making gay seem normal and healthy" as one of their goals to destroy America.
In many ways (short of the violence and oppresion of women LOL), American Christian morality is merging with the values of the Muslim world and now Russia.
And the other 57 percent believe that they should be shot.
Yeah...it's great that they don't have that annoying "freedom of speech" and "freedom of peaceable assembly" thing that we have. If the government doesn't get the right to censor on the grounds of personal disapproval, who knows what'll happen to society.
LOL
I guess I should have waited a little longer to gave my "You're No. 1 Dumb Ass" Award. I'll give you an Honorable Mention.
Liberals hate Christians because they hate Gays.
Liberals Love Muslims
Muslims say:The cleric said the Koran taught that homosexuals should be killed because their lifestyle spells the extinction of the human race and said that gays had no human rights.
This makes no sense to me!
You should just keep both for yourself.
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