Georgia's ruling party proposes LGBTQ+ "propaganda" law that compares homosexuality to incest
Georgia's ruling party proposes LGBTQ+ "propaganda" law that compares homosexuality to incest
The one-time Soviet state flirted with democracy but is moving toward authoritarianism.
It just confirms that conservatives are only afraid of everything. It was race, it was gays, it's now trans. Their entire platform is fear of everything. I saw a guy with a bumper sticker that said "Fuck Biden" and I assumed he was a scared little boy.
Or he closeted and it had another meaning.
i like how i had to check to see if i was in us politics or world news because honestly i couldn't tell from the headline.
Georgia, US, would never make a comment like that, insest is legal there if you marry first and porn search history indicates it's widely accepted!
The article talks about the East Orthodox Church involvement.
Oh this dude is definitely gay.
Can we not do the homophobic trope where everyone who hates gay people must be secretly gay?
I tried suggesting this the other day and a bunch of people argued "no, saying all homophobes are queer does not mean queer people are responsible for their own bigotry" despite it meaning exactly that.
My favorites were the ones who thought saying "everyone is queer, it's on a spectrum" somehow changed that implication.
And their "evidence" was "look at all the homophobes who turned out to be gay" as if that was the vast majority of the bigots.
Also, my saying things like "you could argue that everyone is a little disabled and therefore all ableists are self-hating disabled people" got me told that's different. Not how it was different though.
All I know is that it's only ever queer people who get blamed for their own bigotry.
When it stops being true people will stop mentioning it. Let me know if you need lots of articles about conservative leaders caught in the act.
Look, it's basic psychology. I am straight so for me I don't get the desire to have gay sex. If I disproved of gay sex I still wouldn't want a law against it because I simply don't understand why anyone would want to engage in it. If I were in the closet and didn't approve of it of course I would want a law against it, because I would know how tempting it was. Drug laws do make a bit of sense because all of us have a desire to be free of cold unfeeling existence for a little while. Drugs are naturally tempting, unlike homosexuality which is only tempting to a small fraction of the population.
You need the right combination of wanting something and not approving of what you want. Any other combination is not going to result in that outcome.
The louder the homophobic rant, the deeper in the closet.
that far-right conservatives and the Orthodox Church have accused of infecting Georgia and other countries with “degeneracy.”
A Christian church being not only homophobic but also using the state's power to inflict its "morality" on others? I am shocked shocked.
what's interesting to me about the term degenerate- having been called it a few times for being bi - is it either means "inhuman" or "different" depending on how you interpret it.
Which, yeah, it's different to being het, no shit Sherlock, but how is something that humans do instinctually not a human function?
Fucking dumbasses.
Learning from the Russian law on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" are we?
I mean, they were a Soviet state
So was Estonia.
Man, they're really trying to copy off of Russia's homework. Why?
