Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Outrage Expressed After Effigy of Same-Sex Couple Burnt in Croatia
Breitbart ^ | 02/24/2020

Posted on 02/24/2020 12:55:37 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – Croatia’s president and government joined activists Monday in expressing outrage at the burning during a carnival of an effigy showing a same-sex couple with their child.

The incident occurred Sunday in the southern town of Imotski. A large effigy showing two men embracing each other was torched in front of cheering festival goers to the sound of the funeral music.

President Zoran Milanovic condemned the incident as an “inhumane, totally unacceptable act.” He demanded that the organizers apologize, while an LGBT group announced legal action.

“The event was observed by many children who could witness the spreading of hatred and inciting to violence,” Milanovic said in a statement.

Croatia’s government also said it is opposed to “any form of hate speech of aggression … and any act that insults the feelings of the Croatian people and contributes to the divisions within society,” the official Hina news agency reported.

Burning of effigies is a satirical tradition at Croatia’s carnivals, often representing public figures or politicians. Past incidents included the burning of a children’s book about same-sex families in 2018 and last year’s torching of an effigy of a Croatian Serb politician.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: effigy
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-27 next last
Fire YouTube still

This is wrong!

Those children are too close to that fire. Otherwise....

Good to go.

1 posted on 02/24/2020 12:55:37 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

An image of what awaits them.


2 posted on 02/24/2020 12:57:36 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

What’s the crime? Destruction of papier-mache?


3 posted on 02/24/2020 12:58:14 PM PST by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Just who is outraged?

The mediots and sodomites are outraged... the rest of us aren’t


4 posted on 02/24/2020 1:01:12 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

It’s Big Government vs The People all across the world.


5 posted on 02/24/2020 1:02:01 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

They simply saw the public Buttigieg stage couple kiss and exercised their right of freedom of speech.

Oh, wait....


6 posted on 02/24/2020 1:02:46 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man

And reprobate minds bring a lawsuit ... must not be truthful on what is to GOD an abomination. First chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans covers it sufficiently. Wonder why little man Buutjudge hasn’t read that part? Oh! That’s right, he is a pretend Christian still dead in trespasses and sins, living an abomination in God’s sight.


7 posted on 02/24/2020 1:03:27 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

The kids seem to be enjoying the pyre.


8 posted on 02/24/2020 1:04:44 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: IronJack

Yeah it’s a form of protest.

Go to a muslim country for the real thing


9 posted on 02/24/2020 1:06:21 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

This is definately art


10 posted on 02/24/2020 1:11:25 PM PST by olepap
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Another “outrage” fake !


11 posted on 02/24/2020 1:14:49 PM PST by urtax$@work (The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Bwahahahaha!


12 posted on 02/24/2020 1:18:33 PM PST by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

If the President and government of Croatia are outraged over something like this, wait until they learn what muslims do to sodomites.


13 posted on 02/24/2020 1:34:09 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ouderkirk
Just who is outraged?

NOBODY is outraged. Its all propaganda.

14 posted on 02/24/2020 1:43:28 PM PST by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Queers in closets don’t get burned


15 posted on 02/24/2020 1:44:30 PM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: elcid1970
“The kids seem to be enjoying the pyre.”

That’s just terrible! Boys acting like straight boys and yukking it up together...


16 posted on 02/24/2020 1:53:04 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: dp0622

Imotski is in southern Croatia a few miles from the border with Bosnia & Herzegovina. It’s maybe 40 or 50 miles by road to the nearest predominantly Muslim area. But I don’t think the Muslims in B&H are known for killing gays.


17 posted on 02/24/2020 1:53:34 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: IronJack
What’s the crime? Destruction of papier-mache?

LOL! Good one!

18 posted on 02/24/2020 1:57:39 PM PST by cloudmountain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Burn now, or burn in hell you queers


19 posted on 02/24/2020 2:07:54 PM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: elcid1970

learning moment that will probably stick


20 posted on 02/24/2020 2:08:45 PM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-27 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson