The Real Georgian Homophobic Church --or Russia strikes back!

duncan124: Georgia's Homophobic Church
20 May 2013 Moscow Times

By Paul Rimple

"Why is everybody so aggressive?" I asked two priests standing at a bus stop as thousands of people ran by me in pursuit of gay activists. "Is this Christian behavior? Is this what Jesus would do?"

They did not answer, let alone look me in the eye. I'd meet another priest later, after I had barely escaped a savage mob of Georgian Orthodox Christians, who had no qualms explaining why people had every right to beat homosexuals.

"It's because they do it in public," he said, simulating the act of sex with his hands and hips. "They are spreading propaganda and want to destroy Georgian traditions."

Last year, when Georgia's LGBT community held the first rally to mark International Day Against Homophobia, it ended in a scuffle with a handful of Orthodox Christian extremists who blocked their march.

This year, the rally ended when a mob of over 20,000 bloodthirsty homophobes — led by cursing priests — broke through police barriers and chased a handful of demonstrators into the city streets, shouting, "Kill them!"

OCD_OCD: WTF, Duncan?

duncan124:
There is the good argument that polititians are not allowed to use sex for polititcal statements and using the sexual act as a proaganda is clearly offensive.

Are these people going to ' change ', to say the least, all traditions by bring the sexual act in to everything?--- "Like ( that word we can not say on Wireclub) they are!! " you say.

duncan124:
From the Moscow Times.

"Russian police detained about 30 pro- and anti-gay activists in central Moscow on Saturday, imposing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations.
The arrests, underlining Russia's tough response to public demonstrations by gay groups, coincided with the first ever gay rally in neighboring Ukraine, which was allowed by the authorities and protected by the police.
Russia's parliament has given preliminary approval to a ban on "homosexual propaganda" targeting minors, which critics say would effectively ban gay rights demonstrations.
The legislation has prompted condemnation from abroad, but President Vladimir Putin has rejected that criticism, saying Russia did not discriminate against gay people.
Activists and Orthodox believers were detained for the unsanctioned rally on the same day Kiev held its first sanctioned gay rights rally.
Putin's traditional support base is among conservative voters, including Russian Orthodox followers, some of whom turned up to show their disapproval of Saturday's rally."