Homosexuality invariably leads to a complete break down of morality in society. It must be nipped in the bud.
Posted on 05/16/2009 11:56:08 AM PDT by Maelstorm
MOSCOW (AP) - Riot police violently broke up several gay rights demonstrations in Moscow on Saturday, hauling away scores of protesters hours before the Russian capital hosted a major international pop music competition.
City officials had warned they would not tolerate marches or rallies supporting the rights of gays and lesbians. Activists had targeted Moscow, which was holding the finals of the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, to press their claims that Russia officially sanctions homophobia.
Police seized gay rights protesters as well as some members of religious and nationalist groups that staged counter-demonstrations. They also took away gay rights activists for simply talking to reporters, and ripped the bra and shirt off one female protester.
Moscow police spokesman Anatoly Listovetsky said 40 people were detained, although media reports said up to 80 had been seized.
Among those detained were British activist Peter Tatchell and American activist Andy Thayer of Chicago, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network.
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GOOD
GOOD !!
Give them a beating they will remember and then send ‘em off to hard labor in Siberia.
That's tyranny, and not something FReepers should support.
On the other hand, should a nation have the right to protect their culture and morality from outside influence.
Russia is not America, and it would be a huge mistake to impose the expectation that Russia could ever be like the US.
Good for Russia..I am not for violence, but no good at all comes from homosexual behavior except incessant immorality..
I asked a homosexual, what is the Moral Guidelines with Homosexuality?
ANSWER: Their is none....
...and ripped the bra and shirt off one female protester?
They probably just wanted to make sure she is a woman.
I frankly do not care. The homosexuals have become the tyrants and they are not being peaceful when they assault our family structure and parade around in public with their pants down performing fellatio on one another. Also I’ve seen what such “peaceful” protests have produced here. The intimidation, the elevating of obscene behavior, and the cancer like way have been trying to remake society in their image. These kinds of “gay marches” would not have been allowed even here not many years ago because such things were deemed obscene. This country was fine then and I’d not be opposed to returning to the original interpretation of the First Amendment and discarding the liberalize version so many accept today. I don’t call that tyranny, I call that decency.
Peaceful, maybe, but gay protests/parades are often obscene and illegal on several counts. But I don't condone unnecessary violence on the part of the police, either.
Of course not. I'm not expecting Russia to become as gay-friendly as the US or Western Europe.
But we shouldn't approve of *any* government's gross violations of human liberty, either. Such as shutting down a peaceful protest simply because the government doesn't like the protester's message.
This isn't about being in favor of homosexuality or against it, it's about keeping government power properly restricted.
I don’t know what happened there but it is hard to trust News sources when so many of them are rooting for the sexual deviants. The goal of protesters especially on the left is to create a scene and to make a spectacle and generate propaganda. She should have went peacefully. I commend the Russians for dealing with a disease the way it sometimes must be dealt with.
Like the 1950’s old Henny Youngman joke....”My Mother-in-Law drove my brand new caddy over a cliff......I have mixed emotions”
Thomas Jefferson recommended dismemberment. The Founders were wise men.
Homosexuality invariably leads to a complete break down of morality in society. It must be nipped in the bud.
They didn’t have permit. You have to have a permit in America, too.
When people have lost so much they hang onto the vestiges of their humanity and order as if they are hanging onto their own lives.
Fine. If individual protesters start violating the law then haul them away. Or if the protest organizers make it clear that they intend to violate the law during the course of the parade, shut it down on those grounds.
But it's wrong for the city to deny a peaceful protest because the city leaders disagree with the protester's message or lifestyle. That just seems like a basic principle for any society that wants to call itself "free".
It's very possible that the arrests really *were* for legitimate reasons and that this article slanted things because of a pro-gay bias. If that's the case then I support the Moscow authorities. But if this really was a case of a peaceful, lawful protest being shut down because of its message then I don't see how any FReeper could support it.
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