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07.01.2009 11:13am EDT
(Lithuania) President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited the discussion of homosexuality in schools and banned it from any public information that could be seen or referenced by children the Advocate reports.
The bill, called the “Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information,” was overwhelmingly passed by the Lithuanian parliament on June 16. Other information that would be banned by the law includes the portrayal of physical or psychological violence, the display of a dead or cruelly mutilated body, and information that arouses fear or horror, or encourages self-mutilation or suicide.Lithuania, a member of the European Union, received criticism for the bill because it contradicts a joint statement the country signed at the UN General Assembly in December 2008. The join statement reaffirmed that human rights apply equally to every human being regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
President Adamkus’s veto can be reversed by the Lithuanian Parliament but only with an absolute majority.
We can be thankful to Amnesty International and its Urgent Action Network for a concerted campaign against that bill. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL is a leading organization helping people get involved on the issue of protecting LGBT people around the world.
EXCELLENT! Thank you, President Adamkus! Striking a blow for sanity and intelligence!
Would that we had that over here, in the other political party.
Mo Rage
http://www.moravings.blogspot.com
Imagine the president of Lithuania being more advanced than Obama. Who’d have thought?.
Blue Jack: Obama would have vetoed the same bill.
I’m not sure Obama would have vetoed. He seems to cave easily more and more on anything not related to the economy or his health care
As said many times… can’t trust what the politicians’ promises. We have seen it again and again that any agreements signed can be just ignored and violated. No body really follows them anyway.
Double standard government with brainless decision makers will continue to rule this earth. The fall of a civilization is cause by these people. Not the LGBT.
WE DO NOT HAVE SUCH AN HONOR TO RUIN THE GOOD NAME OF MARRIAGE OR BEING THE ONE TO DESTROYED VALUES BECAUSE THE SO CALLED “STRAIGHT” PEOPLE ALREADY DONE IT FOR US.
Adamkus did nothing special, he was just sensible.
The bill would have been dropped anyway because it is incompatible with EU law.
Thank the EU, not Adamkus!
Good job, Pres. Adamkus! You have my support!
Adamkus for 2012??
Lithuania was occupied for 50 years by Soviet Union. All fields of life were been controlled by Moscow. Take a look, what do we have now.
Nowadays we are under the control of Brussel. I ask to show the respect to legitimately elected Parlament and it’s solutions. If I am right, we live in a democratic system. A Parlament that is elected by Lithuanian people is subordinated to their interests.