Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics has come out as proudly gay via Twitter.
The move is a surprising one, given that Latvia, a country with a population around 2 million, is located in ultraconservative Eastern Europe where the politics are notoriously antigay. In fact, homosexual activity was downright illegal in Latvia until 1992 when the country regained its independence from the Soviet Union.
Rinkevics’s announcement appears to be part of a larger agenda. The Huffington Post reports that prior to his Thursday coming-out tweet — which said simply “I proudly announce I’am [sic] gay… Good luck all of you…” — the politician had taken to Twitter to express his view that Latvia “has created a legal framework for all types of partnerships [and] will fight for it. I know there will be immediate mega-hysteria, but #Proudtobegay.”
Latvia has had a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage since 2005. Rinkevics has held his position as foreign minister since 2011.
blueshirt409
That’s an awfully condescending tone to take about Latvia. Much of the United States is notoriously antigay, too, and until Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), homosexual activity was illegal in parts of the United States. Moreover, the article’s not even factually correct, as Latvia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. See, e.g., “Latvia 1990-2010 Twenty years of Independence” at http://latvianhistory.com/2010/05/05/latvia-the-20-years-of-indep/. Why couch his announcement this way? It’s belittling and misleading.
MarionPaige
Meanwhile in the US …
It looks like The Gay Fucking Marriage Fucktards are lying low this week because of the Republican outcome in the mid-term elections.
There is no video from A-Fucking-FER celebrating the fact that they will likely now be trying to get an appeal to the Honorable US Supreme Court on marriage equality because The Sixth Circuit has affirmed gay marriage bans (and thus broke with the “trend” of appeals court striking gay marriage bans illegal).
Of course, we probably should expect The Gay Marriage Queens to rev up their BS and PR next week announcing their new push to The Supreme Court hoping everyone has forgotten that the Republicans will control both the House and The Senate come January.
One of the comments that stood out for me about the new Republican Congress is that someone wrote “MARRIAGE EQUALITY IS SAFE”. This is the same kind of thinking that had THE GAYS declaring back in the 90’s that all states would have to honor gay marriages under FULL FAITH AND CREDIT.
Everyone should repeat the phrase FULL FAITH AND CREDIT over and over today to remind themselves how fucking stupid and brain fucking dead gay marriage activist were / are.
MarionPaige
Obama won re-election although Gay Marriage Fucktards did their best to keep gay marriage a wedge issue in the campaign. And now, who is the Gay community looking to to ward off a conservatives controlled congress?
However, it might help to recall why Clinton could have been a party to DOMA and DADT – it was because signing certain non-gay friendly legislation was the best alternatives to something far worst the Congress was contemplating.
Saint Law
@MarionPaige: If anybody is looking to make of gay marriage a wedge issue it’s you.
Fucktard.