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EU to Georgia: Gay Marriage Not a Requirement for Integration
Eurasianet.org ^ | 03/04/2014 | Giorgi Lomsadze

Posted on 03/17/2014 11:22:07 AM PDT by aimhigh

With the Ukrainian crisis in mind, the top European Union official in charge of EU enlargement arrived in Tbilisi on March 4 to underline that Brussels is considering a host of measures to support Georgia’s eagerness for closer ties with the EU and to help resist potential pressure from Russia.

Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle spoke generally of economic aid and support for Georgia’s struggle to preserve its territorial integrity, but keeping an eye out for renewed Russian pressure on Georgia does not just apply to these areas. It also appears to mean convincing skeptical Georgians that associating with Europe does not make a country gay by association.

All ex-Soviet countries which Moscow last year tried to discourage from initialing an association agreement with the EU, including Ukraine, have seen propaganda campaigns claiming that joining the EU economic space comes with a requirement to permit gay marriages.

Brussels, therefore, has become forced to spell out that the association agreement Georgia initialed last year is about free trade, not free love, and that countries are left to make their own decisions on LGBT rights.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: caucasus; crimea; eu; europeanunion; eussr; gay; georgia; homosexualagenda; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; surrendermonkeys; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko

1 posted on 03/17/2014 11:22:07 AM PDT by aimhigh
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Of course they’re going to say that. Georgia would be morons to integrate with these radical leftist fanatics.


2 posted on 03/17/2014 11:23:15 AM PDT by Viennacon
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“All ex-Soviet countries which Moscow last year tried to discourage from initialing an association agreement with the EU, including Ukraine, have seen propaganda campaigns claiming that joining the EU economic space comes with a requirement to permit gay marriages. “

Which is likely true.


3 posted on 03/17/2014 11:25:13 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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“....and that countries are left to make their own decisions on LGBT rights.”

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Phew. That’s refreshing to hear.

I guess that the West is all about gay rights and sodomy.


4 posted on 03/17/2014 11:25:26 AM PDT by 353FMG
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McLame has great longevity genes IIRC.

He may be still be Senator in 2036 when Chelsea Clinton-Mezvinsky is elected POTUS.


5 posted on 03/17/2014 11:26:03 AM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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Gee, the EU is not caving to the but-lickers. Behold, such conviction to decency exists in the EU.


6 posted on 03/17/2014 11:27:03 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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... and that countries are left to make their own decisions on LGBT rights.

Until you are a debt serf, then you'll toe the line.

7 posted on 03/17/2014 11:28:52 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: 353FMG

Jon Cary has been out there threatening nations who are anti gay.

People in Georgia will be lied to. Once they got ya, they will require that country to accept the NWO values. If you want to call gaystuff “values”.


8 posted on 03/17/2014 11:30:37 AM PDT by dforest
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Brussels, therefore, has become forced to spell out that the association agreement Georgia initialed last year is about free trade, not free love, and that countries are left to make their own decisions on LGBT rights.
“Don’t worry, guys! Please sign away your sovereignty in the certain knowledge that you will really like the constant stream of laws and regulations with which we are going to shower you! So much so that we won’t even have to bother asking you for your consent anymore! All nice people like our regulations! Only some Nazis don’t, and ve haff vays of making zem like us, too!”
9 posted on 03/17/2014 11:31:23 AM PDT by cartan
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To: nascarnation

That’s assuming no worms turned.


10 posted on 03/17/2014 11:34:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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There’s a joke in the Ukraine nowadays

Two guys talking:

-Do you know why the Maidan eventally took place?

-No idea.

-It’s because Yanukovich doesn’t share European values.

-That’s right, he should’ve married Azarov (the prime minister) long ago.


11 posted on 03/17/2014 11:44:15 AM PDT by Altenkrug
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Brussels, therefore, has become forced to spell out that the association agreement Georgia initialed last year is about free trade, not free love, and that countries are left to make their own decisions on LGBT rights.

Liar, liar, pants on fire! Countries are left to make their own decisions on LGBT rights, just like "you can keep your health care plan if you like it!"

The EU has nothing to offer except atheism, same sex marriage, socialism, and a failing economic system.

12 posted on 03/17/2014 12:39:16 PM PDT by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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“The EU has nothing to offer except atheism, same sex marriage, socialism, and a failing economic system.”

Until the Moslem demographics overtake the effete and enervated Eurinos. All of that will end at that point, except for the failing economic system.


13 posted on 03/17/2014 1:21:22 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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Until the Moslem demographics overtake the effete and enervated Eurinos. All of that will end at that point, except for the failing economic system.

Good point. Maybe God created Islam for that purpose.

14 posted on 03/17/2014 5:52:15 PM PDT by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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