Posted on 07/02/2011 9:54:15 AM PDT by Maelstorm
ZAGREB — Half of Croatian high school pupils think homosexuality is an illness and two-thirds say gay rights marches should be banned, a poll said Friday.
Some 47 percent of final year school students polled said "homosexuality is illness," the survey done by non-government rights group GONG found.
More than 64 percent of the 999 respondents in 43 schools said gay pride parades should be banned as they "have a harmful effect on education of young people," the poll showed.
On June 11, a gay pride parade in the coastal town Split was marred by violence when anti-gay protestors pelted marchers with stones and bottles, injuring about a dozen people, four of them journalists.
A week later, another parade was held without incident in the capital Zagreb.
Croatia's first gay pride parade was held in Zagreb in 2002, with more than a dozen participants beaten up afterwards.
Since then, parades have been held in the capital annually without major incidents, but always under heavy security.
Croatian society is largely conservative and the influential Roman Catholic Church has publicly branded homosexuality a "handicap" and a "perversion".
Almost 88 percent of the former Yugoslav republic's population of 4.4 million are Roman Catholics.
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It is without a doubt a learned behavior. Fags practice being fags.
“Did you ever think it would be former-Communist states that would be the most resistant to this nonsense?”
Sodomy was a felony in the Soviet Union. So was the refusal to hold a job. It was a -felony- to be idle. Children and labor were both assets of the STATE.
The irony is that if the hard left ever triumphs in this nation, the first to the gulags will be their rank and file dupes, just as the show trials and executions under Stalin were aimed at the original Bolshevik cadre.
“We are moving to Croatia!! A country with some sense left.”
In all truth, if we cannot reverse our decline, the former Warsaw Pact nations will look very attractive. Western Europe is far more degenerate even than the US, and the other choices are various flavors - and hazards - of Third World.
People who bring real expertise might find some interesting perches in the the former Evil Empire when they flee the emerging one.
How many of them were Croatian journalists?
From what I see on travel programs, Croatia is a beautiful country.
It wouldn't surprise me if that was what finally brought down the USSR.
Oh come on! I still wanna marry my dog. He’s a good dog and I only want to be the kind of man he thinks I am./s
No Communist government of that era ever had the slightest toleration for it.
In the Soviet Union detected homosexuality meant a term in a “corrective labor” camp.
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