Yury Luzhtov, the mayor of Moscow, said Monday “a gay parade ... cannot be called anything by a Satanic act. We haven’t permitted such a parade and we won’t permit in the future.” He added that “its’ high time that we stop propagating nonsense discussions about human rights, and bring to bear on them the full force and justice of the law.” The mayor’s statements echo ones he began making in 2007, although now his anti-gay rhetoric has intensified with the threat of gays being punished criminally, despite homosexuality no longer being illegal in Russia. A spokesperson for the pride parade, Nikolai Alexeyev, said that the organizers do not intend to make any changes and “still plan to hold a gay parade on May 29th.
Pretend Pastor Martin Ssempa, Tuesday, at a public meeting organized in an effort to augment support for the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, showed an audience graphic gay porn. According to reports, “midway through his presentation, saved on a computer, most of his audience walked out, some visibly disturbed, leaving him to wonder if he had done anything wrong. The cleric seemed genuinely rattled when he asked ‘Why should I be traumatized?’” He also presented two teenagers – a male and female – who claimed to be cured of being gay, another vain attempt to affirm Ssempa’s insistence that homosexuality is a choice.
8: The Mormon Proposition was roundly applauded by an audience that saw the Reed Cowan documentary Sunday, when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film examines the historic anti-gay stance of the Mormon Church and its unprecedented involvement in the passage of Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment that defines marriage as that only existing between a man and woman.
A proposed Equality Bill being debated Monday in the British House of Parliament is raised the ire of religious organizations who contend that the government mislead the public, and that legislators intend to make it impossible for religious groups to avoid the equal treatment laws protecting and preventing job discrimination based solely on gender, sexual identity, or sexual orientation.
Club Physical, a chain of gyms in New Zealand, has apologized for a link in its weekly newsletter to a 2006 discredited opinions piece by far-right lunatic fringe Christian Jim Rutz that suggested soy milk makes you gay.
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