EFFORTPOST Georgian parliament approves anti-LGBTQ legislation, echoing measures in Russia (+Reactions and Infighting From Kiwi Farms Vermin )

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-lgbtq-rights-samesex-marriage-57ede62918ec995f21473f23f5676f80

Georgia's parliament on Tuesday approved sweeping legislation that curtails LGBTQ+ rights, a measure that echoes laws adopted in neighboring Russia.

The bill, introduced by the ruling party Georgian Dream earlier this year, includes bans on same-s*x marriages, adoptions by same-s*x couples and public endorsement and depictions of LGBTQ+ relations and people in the media. It also bans gender-affirming care and changing gender designations in official documents.

The Orthodox Church wields great influence in Georgia, and demonstrations against the LGBTQ+ community are common. Last year, hundreds of opponents of gay rights stormed an LGBTQ+ festival in the Georgian capital, forcing the event's cancellation. This year, tens of thousands marched in Tbilisi to promote "traditional family values."

"Traditional family values" are also at the cornerstone of the Kremlin's narrative in Russia, where authorities in the last decade banned public endorsement of "nontraditional sexual relations" as well as laws against gender-affirming care, among other measures. Its Supreme Court effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism by labeling what the authorities called the LGBTQ+ "movement" operating in Russia as an extremist organization and banning it.

The new initiative was announced by Georgian Dream after the country in June adopted the "foreign influence" law that critics also denounced as borrowed from Moscow's playbook. The measure requires media and nongovernmental organizations to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.

That measure ignited weeks of protests and was widely criticized as threatening democratic freedoms and jeopardizing Georgia's chances of joining the European Union. The South Caucasus nation of 3.7 million formally applied to join in 2022, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the bloc halted its accession in response to the "foreign influence" law and froze some of its financial support. The United States imposed sanctions on dozens of Georgian officials in response to the law.

The anti-LGBTQ+ bill was approved on its third and final reading, with 84 of 150 lawmakers voting for it. It now must be signed by President Salome Zourabichvili. Zourabichvili, who has been at odds with the ruling party. She can veto the bill, the same way she vetoed the foreign influence law, but the parliament, dominated by Georgian Dream, can override her and adopt the legislation regardless.

Georgia's constitution states that "marriage is based on the legal equality and free will of the spouses" but does not explicitly ban same-s*x marriage, and the country's civil code clarifies that marriage is a "voluntary union between a man and a woman." The new legislation by the ruling party, which does not have the votes to change the constitution, contains a more explicit ban and is seen as a populist step to win the support of marginal groups.

Georgia will hold a parliamentary election on Oct. 26, with the ruling party seeking to retain its dominance.

Georgian Dream was set up up by Bidzina Ivanishvili, a shadowy billionaire who made his fortune in Russia and served briefly as Georgia's prime minister in 2012. It promised to restore civil rights and "reset" relations with Moscow, which fought a brief war with Georgia in 2008 over the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russia then recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian province, Abkhazia, and established military bases there.

Many Georgians backed Ukraine as Kyiv battled Russia's invasion in 2022. But the Georgian government abstained from joining sanctions against Moscow, barred dozens of Kremlin critics from entering the country, and accused the West of trying to drag Tbilisi into open conflict with Russia. The opposition has accused the ruling party of steering the country into Russia's orbit at the detriment of its European aspirations.

Remember: almost all Europeans passionately support the criminalization of views that they dislike. You will be hard-pressed to find any left-wing Europeans who do not support the criminalization of homophobic speech, just as you will be hard-pressed to find any right-wing Europeans who do not support the criminalization of pro-gay speech. The idea of defending freedom of speech for views that you personally disapprove of flat-out does not exist in Europe. In Europe, defending freedom of speech means defending freedom of speech for views that you personally agree with and censoring views that you personally disagree with. In the '90s, leftists and "human rights activists" in Russia zealously lobbied the Russian government to enact all manner of restrictive laws against "hate speech", to supposedly protect the country from evil Nazis and commies. The laws were passed, of course; and, today, they are used primarily against leftists, LGBT rights activists, and Putin opponents - the exact same people who demanded that the laws be enacted in the first place. The exact same thing is now happening in other European countries, as far-right parties take power and begin using speech censorship laws pushed by leftists in order to silence anyone who opposes the far-right.

People who advocate drawing lines around freedom of speech always envision themselves as the ones holding the pen. They never even entertain the thought that someone else's definition of objectionable speech might differ from theirs.

The putrid diarrhea people of Kiwi Farms - the most rancid, worthless subhuman vermin on the planet, whose lives hold less value than the lives of fleas or ticks - have been largely predictable in their reactions to this, as if sweeping government power of this sort wouldn't immediately be used to shut down their vile online swamp:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/georgian-parliament-approves-anti-lgbtq-legislation-echoing-measures-in-russia.200574/

User Vyse Inglebard:

God bless you, Eastern Europe.

User osooolemiiio:

Based <s>Khachapuri</s> Sakartvelo!

User Picnic_Boy:

It's almost like they don't enjoy seeing children marching in dildo parades. Weird.

User Toji Suzuhara:

A brilliant decision, you must fight this before it takes root. Otherwise you end up like Cali, which went from democratically deciding to ban gay marriage, to having fetish parades in its largest cities, in less than a generation

User Battlefield2142EU:

Odds are the mainstream media lying about the law just like the so called don't say gay bill in Florida. If journ*lists can't be trusted with reporting news in United States. Why should they treated with reporting news in eastern Europe?

User Nitro!:

All "gay rights" are infringements and it is morally correct to outlaw them.

User SSj_Ness:

You love to see it, too bad America is so cucked to strags and shitskins.

One user - Arcade Gannon - tells the truth and is, of course, immediately swarmed by MAGAt r-slurs:

Bans depictions of homosexuality in media.

Bans public gatherings promoting homosexuality.

This is oppression. They're outlawing public assemblies and broadcasts that go against what the government wants.

User The Punished Mitch:

If banning sexual deviants from corrupting children is oppression I don't want to be free.

User Reinhardo-sama:

Nah, cute twinks and s overplayed their hand. Now they get what they fricking deserve.

Another user - Montalbane - says what anyone with a functioning brain knows is actually going to happen (and is, of course, also swamped by the rest of the r-slur pack for it):

Ban gays from gathering

Label all your opponents as cute twinks and catamites.

Profit.

Gotta respect the hustle.

The same for another user, Miquella:

Now to label anyone they don't like as something so vague as LGBTQ activists to keep the sheeple convinced traditional values means being poor and subservient to the bourgeois class a fricking billionaire lol can't make this shit up idiot clowns

User The Punished Mitch:

It's really quite easy to avoid being labeled an LGBTQ activist, just make sure you don't try to convince kindergarteners that mutilating their bodies, padding out their allowance via prostitution or engaging in anal fisting during recess are acceptable practices and you'll be perfectly safe from accusations of LGBTQ-activism.

User Sperg Coalition:

What the frick is this word salad? Frick off strag lmao

Arcade Gannon responds to The Punished Mitch's "I don't want to be free" comment:

Tyrants love to hear it.

As of this post, the thread is still active, so I'm sure there's more wingcucked r-sluration to come.

Every time a Kiwi Farms member commits suicide, it legitimately makes my day. I am not even being facetious. As I have stated before, Kiwi Farms is a putrid swamp of the internet's worst psychopaths, neo-Nazis, incels, racists, degenerates, sadists, perverts, conspiratards, and QAnon mongoloids, and its members legitimately do not deserve to live. I would once again like to thank @Aevann a million times for making sure that this site does not turn into Kiwi Farms.

@Cream_a_da_crop said it best:

Null and his whole clique of cute twinks are some of the most insufferable people on the internet. I hope that KF gets permanently taken down and Null ends up in a fricking gutter somewhere, out of spite because he is the most unfunny unlikeable wingcucked cute twink on the internet. The users need to shattered into 1000000 pieces and cast to the wind. I don't care if my cow archives are gone there's plenty of documentation elsewhere

By the way, you r-slurred basement-dwelling neo-Nazis who worship Russia: Hitler considered Russians (and all Slavic people) to be inferior subhuman vermin fit for extermination. And, if Hitler had succeeded at wiping Russia off of the face of the earth before being defeated, the world would be a far better place today.

@Aevann, Marseybux for documenting and stirring up rightoid infighting please.

!lgbt !nonchuds !burgers !grillers