This is what the fundamentalist religious / maga right want to do in the US notice the reason why they feel they need to pass this law. Because it is changing tradition. Tradition is peer pressure from dead people. The right wing straight cis people like the way things are and don’t want to include other ideas or ways. Just a warning. Hugs. Scottie
TBILISI, GEORGIA – MAY 17, 2018: Family day. People attend a rally marking the Day of Family Purity and opposing the International Day Against Homophobia and TransphobiaPhoto: ShutterstockGeorgia’s parliament on Thursday pushed ahead a sweeping package of bills that would effectively outlaw LGBTQ+ identity in the former Soviet republic.
The set of bills proposed by the ruling pro-Putin Georgian Dream party bans depictions of same-sex relationships in the media, outlaws gender-affirming surgery, and will make Pride events and the public display of the Pride flag in Georgia a thing of the past.
Parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili describes the bills as necessary to control “LGBT propaganda,” which he said was “altering traditional relations.”
The first reading of the bill titled “On the Protection of Family Values and Minors,” which draws heavily from Russia’s anti-LGBTQ+ “propaganda” law passed last year, drew widespread support among Georgia Parliament deputies. The bill is scheduled for second and third readings in the fall.
In addition to outlawing public gatherings “promoting” same-sex relationships, the legislation would also limit adoption to heterosexuals, ban gender changes on official identification, and outlaw “LGBT propaganda” in education.
Georgian Dream MPs have also proposed introducing “genetic” requirements in establishing legal marriage, whereby marriage would be a union of a “genetic woman” and a “genetic man.”
The Constitution already bans same-sex marriage in Georgia, where the deeply conservative Orthodox Church holds outsized influence in the government and public sphere.
Georgia enjoyed decades of progress on human and LGBTQ+ rights following the Rose Revolution in 2003, as a majority of citizens supported a pro-Western turn and integration into the European Union and NATO.
The rise of the Georgian Dream party in the last ten years, however, has seen the government reorienting toward Russia, with the Church encouraging the rapprochement.
Georgia’s version of Putin’s draconian “LGBT propaganda” law seems designed not only to roll back progress on LGBTQ+ rights but to scuttle any hope of Georgia entering the European Union, with its strict requirements upholding civil liberties and personal freedoms.
The introduction of the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation follows the Georgia Parliament’s passage of another Russian-inspired law to label Western NGOs “foreign agents,” teeing up a harassment campaign aimed at expelling human rights and other groups that far-right conservatives and the Orthodox Church have accused of infecting Georgia and other countries with “degeneracy.”
Speaking of opponents of the nascent legislation in March, Mamuka Mdinaradze, leader of the Georgian Dream parliamentary majority, said, “Even if they brand the law against LGBT ‘propaganda’ not Russian, but Soviet, we will follow it through, given that it is the biggest challenge of modern times.”
Anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment runs high among extremists in the onetime Soviet vassal. In 2021 and 2023, violent mobs shut down Pride marches in the capital Tbilisi.
Organizers say foreign agents, delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, joined far-right fascist political gangs and members of the Georgian Orthodox church to sabotage the peaceful demonstration. Hundreds were injured in the two incidents.
Rights groups and supporters described the attacks as “pogroms.”
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I saw that headline and immediately thought: “I guess I got out just in time.” Then I read a bit further, and realized “Oh, the country of Georgia.” This world. So much hate for people like me. Will we ever evolve as a race beyond hatred of the “other?”
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Hi Janet. I am sorry the post triggered bad feelings in you. I also have those same thoughts about Ron and I being openly gay in a same sex marriage in Florida. That is why I posted this, the fundamentalist maga right wants all of us erased from society so their straight cis ideals can be undisturbed. But here are the real facts. Every time there is a gathering of republicans in a place, the number of clients for male escorts / sex workers goes way up. Yes the same people of family values and save the children from the gays are well know to use the most male sex workers. Sad they can not just accept who they are and what they feel. But the golden ticket of being in political office with the chance of enriching themselves and being powerful overrides the need to live true to their feelings. So Sad. Hugs. Scottie
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Hugs. I’m okay Scottie. It’s just that the state of Georgia is where I fled from back in January. It was a passing thought, that’s all. 🫂
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Seems like it’s always got to be somebody or something, doesn’t it? I don’t know how to change it.
I think if women could run it-all their own ways and not within men’s systems that are in place-I think we could change it. But while working within everything that has been built by men, I don’t see how to change things. I don’t mean all or every man, simply that men have build the world with their own systems, and there will always be men who want to sustain things as they are, using groups against other groups in order to profit and stay on top. Some women do contribute to the system, or fail to make change, but a system is a system, and it’s difficult for anyone within to shake it up if there’s no chance to truly run things.
I’m inspired by Israel’s general strike, which was quashed, but at least they made the statement, and that made news. I’ve been urging a general strike since before we inaugurated a US president who won the office in a court judgment, but it’s very difficult for a lone person or a few people to get something like that started in a big place like the US.
Anyone suppose I was part of a matriarchy in a previous life? (A rhetorical; I’m not sure I believe reincarnation happens.) Anyway, I think we could make a better world than men do.
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Hi Ali. The party of tRump and the cult of maga go after the weakest most vulnerable people because they know they can not go after the stronger ones. They like easy prey because bullies and predators love easy already broken prey.
Yes the systems created by men do favor men. And I agree women could do as well or better. But there is such a resurgence of misogyny in the US and worldwide it seems now, I worry about it. I worry about what is driving it, why such a violable loud violent minority allowed to have such a voice, such undeserved authority to change our society?
I just listened to an Israeli soldier who raped a Palestinian prisoner so badly he was hospitalized with serious with a ruptured rectum, broken ribs, and damaged lungs. They took this man behind their shields and forced a cell phone up his ass. Then called the number and laughed at his pain. But they couldn’t get the phone out and it would incriminate them so … they used tools and sharp objects to try to dig it out. No word yet if they also raped him with their penises as has long been accused by boy prisoners. In Israeli these three soldiers are being regarded as heroes and good soldiers doing their job to stop Hamas. The people and even some members of the government defended them and said they wished every prisoner was treated like this because they were all Hamas terrorists. On the TV interview the soldier said that if given a button that would kill all Palestinians in Gaza he would press it many times to kill them all. He claimed all Israelis would. That is how they see the entire Palestinians, not human, as terrorists even the children, and not worthy of rights. Far more than disgusting. Israel learned nothing from Hitlers final solution except to do it to those they dislike. Hugs. Scottie
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