Lithuanian Mayor Bans Gay Meeting
Things aren’t looking good for Lithuania’s gays. Though they were meant to convene for an annual International Lesbian and Gay Association meeting in Vilnius. The city’s mayor, however, had other ideas and banned the conferences. Though Juozas Imbrasas claims he rejected the gays because their chosen venue didn’t meet safety codes, event organizers say otherwise.
IGLA Europe executive director Patricia Prendiville tells BBC News that Imbrasas should have – but didn’t – offer an alternative site,
It is a positive duty of the city authorities to offer an alternative venue to the applicant and they did not do that.There is no doubt that the City of Vilnius used the construction works as a cover.
Prendiville also intimated that she and her colleagues will take Imbrasas and his “institutionalized homophobia” to Europe’s international court, which previously ruled against Poland for a similar offense.
Prenidville and her allies defied the ruling and met at a gay bar, which police later charged with smoke bombs. Ain’t that sweet?
Denominationally, the former Baltic republics, now independent, are Lithuania -like neighbouring Poland – are very Roman Catholic….Belarus, Estonia and Latvia and Russia are Orthodox Christians.
Lithuania and Poland are cultural Catholic theocracies . The Orthodox Churches are equally homophobic, yet they do not have spokesmen patriarchs as vocal on the subject as the Roman Church.
Could it be that the majority of Roman Catholic active clergy are celibate?
Married Catholic priests with permission:
1. Protestant clergy who become Catholic priests under Pastoral provision
2. Orthodox clergy who become Eastern Catholic priests.
3. Eastern Rites Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope.
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