Gay pride
parade (RIA Novosti / Andrey Stenin)
The
country’s Arkhangelsk region has adopted a draft law banning all events
promoting homosexuality, among them Gay Pride marches.
The draft
was put forward by local activists, intellectuals and religious groups. They
hope the law will protect the moral well-being of Russian children and put an
end to what they consider to be the popularizing of homosexuality among the
under-aged.
Russian
authorities have always been strictly against Gay Pride parades. Gay rights
activists have been applying for permission to hold a parade in Moscow for
several years without success. The bans are warmly supported by the Russian
Orthodox Church.
“All
priests know that the souls of those who suffered through sinful homosexual
experience are empty and desperate,” said Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Russian
Orthodox Church PR department. “And it is this insecurity in a minute-long
pleasure that forces these spiritually unhealthy people to hold marches and
other public demonstrations.”
In July
2011, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the decision to repeatedly
ban Gay Pride parades in 2006, 2007 and 2008 was unlawful. Russia has paid €30,000 in compensation to gay activists. Still, the parades are being banned
due to the “negative response they provoke among Russians.”
Russian gay
rights activists, in response, have planned their demonstrations for the next hundred years – they have submitted their requests “to help mass cultural and
educational activities from 2012 to 2112.”
They say
the aim is to expose what they call the “absurdity” of the laws which the
authorities use to deny them the right to conduct their events.
The legal
loophole the activists are trying to exploit stipulates that applications to
hold a demonstration should be filed to local authorities no less than 45 days
before the event. The law does not prohibit filing requests earlier.
About the Challenges of Being a Gay Man – Oct 23, 2010 (Saint Germain channelled by Alexandra Mahlimay and Dan Bennack) - “You see, your Soul and Creator are not concerned with any perspective you have that contradicts the reality of your Divinity – whether this be your gender, your sexual preference, your nationality – or your race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, or anything else.”
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