Comments on: Lithuania president slams anti-gay censorship bill

By: Budbud

Budbud — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:16:27 +0000

Eastern Europe, gotta love it. They’ve been acting like this and worse for years, and for years, I’ve had a personal boycott against them for just as long.

For years, I have made a point not to buy ANYTHING that has “made in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus etc…on it.”

It sucks too because I’m in A/V production and there is an excellent microphone/pro audio company which is based in America, but their products are made in the homophobic Baltic region.

The company is “BLUE” Mics. The name BLUE stands for “Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics”.

This sucks because they make some of the best (and pricey) mic cables I have used. I own some from before I knew what BLUE stood for. I also would love to own some of their high end mics!…

However, until these states learn to act like they are part of Europe and and not Alabama, I’ve forbidden myself from economically supporting the people and governments of this entire region!

By: Steve from Vermont (the equality state)

Steve from Vermont (the equality state) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:06:46 +0000

This happened in England and Wales in 1988, then gay bashings, rise in hatred doubled, then in 1996 it tripled!!!!!

The law was finally repealed in 2004 and still in 2009 gay hatred and bashing have actually risen again because of the economy in a fucked state – remember Hitler in 1933, the same thing happened under paragragh 175. under paragragh 175, even fantazing about another man was a criminal offence.

By: drewski

drewski — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:06:37 +0000

See what happens when you leave the grandchildren of Nazi collaborators without supervision? They still haven’t learned the cost of their bigotry. Forget the Court of Human Rights–I’m thinking of certain Baltic states with suddenly weakened economies, which might find that there is NO EU money coming to bail them out unless they stop their bigoted stupidity now and on their own.

By: The Cole

The Cole — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:05:00 +0000

I don’t think that the EU will do anything, sadly.
Bama-stu : the most ironic part is that the European Court of Human Rights doesn’t depend from the European Union, but from the Council of Europe, which are 2 different organizations !

By: Bama-Stu

Bama-Stu — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:09:36 +0000

What makes you think the European Union will take any stance against this law? They didn’t do anything to help the LGBT citizens of Poland.
Only when someone in Eastern Europe takes their case to the European Court of Human Rights will anything happen – and knowing how some of the Eastern European countries are, they will ignore the decision anyway.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:05:24 +0000

If this legislation takes effect in March I fully expect the European Union to declare that a serious and persistent violation of fundamental rights exists in Lithuania which is a member state. That would lead to the suspension of the rights of Lithuania in EU institutions pursuant to the Treaty of Nice, the current constitutional treaty of the EU.