Comments on: Homophobic Attacks Mar EuroPride

By: Scotlandforever

Scotlandforever — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:14:05 +0000

The Swedes are very Liberal people yes, but Germany there are many right wing fundamentalist groups who if they got one whiff of a Gay Pride event then they go out their way to cause trouble, we are lucky the swedees are liberal enough as if this happened in States a lot of Preachers would mention it was “Gods wrath” or something crazy like that, what I mean by that is the Europeans know too well there is zero trouble at gay pride events

By: Ginelle

Ginelle — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:39:01 +0000

It just saddens me and makes me sick that in a liberal society such as Sweden such crimes of anger and hate towards the gay community still happen, especially by young men. How fortunate for them that the victims survived such a brutal attack. Along with the charges that will undoubtedly be laid, hopefully these two aren’t beyond learning a few lessons in tolerence and education and just maybe some community service within the gay community would not hurt either.

By: Rcltrh

Rcltrh — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:31:59 +0000

They were probably from Virginia, just like the ones who went to California to get the marriage amendment signatures.

By: eugene

eugene — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:42:37 +0000

could be they came from another country (one of the orthodox states).

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:32:31 +0000

It could be fundamentalist christianity that has been spreading from the US. Check out a youtube video called “Radical Christianity Attacking Britain”. I’ve heard that this sort of christianity has been spreading to other European countries as well.

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:30:56 +0000

I am not shocked at all. until recently we had in Europe a very tuff legislation and normative against fascism. but these days the right to free speech has interfered with the issue of hate speech and hate crime. to the point that in Hungary a judge has passed the sentence that throwing eggs at people is a way to express your opinion.
we had a huge attack on the Gay pride in Budapest, and in other European cities to, where things like this did not happen until 2 years ago.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:10:50 +0000

Come now, haven’t you figured it out yet? It was OLD people, REALLY old people. They denounced “Loud Music” Who has a problem with loud music? Only old people. Or nutters, but I’ve never met a nutter who didn’t like a good zen song blasted at 11

By: Kerry

Kerry — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:50:16 +0000

The Swedes are so liberal,so this surprises me.Maybe they were skinheads,neo nazis,or muslims.But even liberal San Francisco has gay haters.

By: R Brotherton

R Brotherton — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:09:35 +0000

Hmmmm…perhaps outside agitators with an agenda to discredit the viability of equality for gay citizens? Also, tying in religion thru inclusion of churches, even tho it was the disruptors who damaged the churches, it brings in the only real organized threat to gay equality: Religion.
Now, who would be interested in doing that? Hmmmmm….Can you say CIA? Or is that too foil-hat-time? Except, as a registered foil-hat conspiracy nutter who has been right about the last four or five conspiracies, including the manufacture of the Iraq war…