LMBT-mentes övezet because Hungary introduced anti-LGBT bill and de facto created an LGBT-free country. He said it was a message to the EU to act in defense of LGBT people because he fears that “Poland will be next.” One prominent Polish activist, Bart Staszewski, carried a Hungarian flag in Saturday's march. The European Union has denounced both these two member nations, accusing them of eroding democratic norms.
Poland's populist ruling party has taken a political direction very similar to that of Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orban in past years, pushing conservative policies and tightening ruling party control over courts and media. But human rights groups see it as a cynical tool that will stigmatize and discriminate against LGBT people, and prevent youth from accessing critical information. Hungary's conservative ruling party portrayed the law as an effort to fight pedophilia. The parade comes days after Hungary's parliament passed a law that makes it illegal to show any materials about LGBT issues to people under 18.
Kirill is a Russian Orthodox bishop and became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2009.Australian diplomats proudly joining in the #EqualityParade festivities in #Warsaw today! Happy #Pride2021 ??? #ParadaRówności ?️??️⚧️ #DiplomatsForEquality /eHOIaDJHu6- Lloyd Brodrick June 19, 2021 "If humanity accepts that sin is not a violation of God's law, if humanity accepts that sin is a variation of human behaviour, the human civilisation will end there," said Kirill. That's why to join the club of those countries, you have to have a gay pride parade," said Kirill. Kirill, the leader of Russia’s dominant religious group, also spoke about gay-pride parades. "Pride parades are designed to demonstrate that sin is one variation of human behaviour. He apprised that an unnamed international power is putting countries to the test by requiring them to hold gay pride parades to join a worldwide club of states with its notions about freedom and "excess consumerism." And in Donbass there is a rejection, a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power," Kirill said. "For eight years, there have been attempts to destroy what exists in Donbass. Kirill described the current scenario as a struggle against sin and pressure from western liberals. There have been attempts to destroy what exists in Donbass: Russian Orthodox Bishop Kirill
Speaking of the breakaway region of Ukraine, he voiced his support for President Putin's unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine was involved in the extermination of Russian loyalists in the region of Donbass. "We have entered into a struggle that has not a physical, but a metaphysical significance," Kirill stated during the Sunday Sermon.ĭonbass, the eastern region of Ukraine, which has been held by pro-Russian separatists since 2014, was also the point of Kirill's sermon. However, during the Sunday sermon, the Russian Orthodox bishop justified the actions taken by Putin and called the current war 'a metaphysical significance'. So far, Kirill, a long-time ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, has remained silent on the Russian incursion into Ukraine. Kirill blamed western liberal values, particularly gay-pride parades, for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In his sermon held on Sunday, the Patriarch of Moscow and Russian Orthodox bishop, Kirill, justified Ukraine's invasion in the sermon.