Posted on 06/06/2015 6:11:16 AM PDT by McGruff
A Ukrainian gay pride parade in the capital of Kiev was attacked on Saturday, wounding five policemen. The radical Right Sector group had threatened the pride marchers ahead of the event.
“There will be thousands of us,” Right Sector spokesman Artem Skoropadskyi had warned the protesters on Friday, Kyiv Post reported. “Gay propaganda is destructive and doing harm to our Christian nation, we can’t allow that.”
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko had also called for the marchers to stand down, saying: “In Kiev there is no harassment on any grounds and each person is guaranteed freedom of expression and belief. However, the 'March of Equality' and in peacetime the increased degree of tension in society has caused much controversy and fights and confrontation have taken place,” the Daily Beast reported, citing his statement released this week.
Ukraine’s first planned gay pride parade was canceled in 2012 amid threats of violence and condemnation. The country's first-ever successful gay pride parade was held in 2013 under the protection of 1,500 police officers but lasted for only one hour.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, however, came out in support of the event. In a Friday press conference, he became the first Ukrainian leader to support LGBT rights when he voiced his approval of “the march of equality as a Christian and as a president-European. This aligns things. I will not participate in it, but I see no reason that someone should prevent it for it is the constitutional right of every Ukrainian citizen,” the Daily Beast reported.
Although Ukraine was the first former Soviet country to decriminalize homosexuality in 1991, a spate of violence has targeted LGBT residents and activists, many of whom were attacked simply for “appearing gay,” Gay Alliance Ukraine's Vice President Stas Mischenko told the Global Post.
That was tame compared to what went on in SF. It was unbelieveable and not just out of the norm, way out of the norm. About as in sync as Obama is with Tea Party values.
If Russia doesn’t stand firm on it’s stance regarding this - Civilization may not recover.
Thank God for
Russia and the Orthodox... Not backing down - not discrimination, in that these people are allowed to live their lifestyle unmolested, BUT NOT allowed to parade in the street, teach it in schools nor adopt.
Eminently fair and CIVILIZED.
It’s gonna be pretty tough for the authorities in the Ukraine because they’re caught in cross-fire. On the one hand they have pledged the pro-European choice and they will definitely be scurged by the guys in Brussels for being incapable of guaranteeing free exression of the so-called European values. On the other hand they risk to provoke mass anti-government resentment in an Orthodox Christian country with a solid anti-LGBT sentiment.
Lots of pics of Twitter of the Kiev police cracking heads.
Looks like they are bashing the heads of the gays, AND Right Sector.
From Twitter:
“#US Diplo #Donahue: “US will be side-by-side with #Ukraine during Pride Parade in #Kiev.” The one that UA police shut down halfway through?”
LifeNews video of the Kiev Gay Pride Parade/Police smackdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLcVciUsRfM
Good. That's what we should have done over here when the queers started strutting their perversion in front of our faces.
Why the hell is it our Govt’s concern for a homosexual parade?
All this administration cares about is contraception, homosexuality, cross dressing, etc.
They want to be applauded and accepted and they never will be because it goes against nature. Why do they have to flaunt their perversions in the Gay Pride parades? Why can’t they just live their lives quietly like normal people do?
Are you so seriously retarded you don’t know the difference between a smoke bomb and high explosives?
Faggots beware.
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