SAM writes:

Regarding your post on the rally in Tbilisi, I recently passed an incredibly pleasant six months in the Republic of Georgia. It’s the kind of place where pretty churches adorn every other street corner and every other hilltop. When a Georgian, regardless of age, passes or catches sight of one of these lovely places of worship, he stops to cross himself piously. Young women act sweet, dress stylishly but modestly, marry young, and dream of children. Young men marry as soon as they find a job (not easy) and the new family usually moves in with his parents. Divorce is rare. Laziness and alcoholism are their great national sins, and they admit it. Moral authority in their lives resides in the Orthodox Church and the Patriarch, not the secular government. All of their holidays are religious. They have spent a large part of their history as a subject nation, to the Arabs, the Turks, the Mongols, the Russians. They always emerged with their cultural and religious integrity intact.

I really cannot believe that many of the homosexual activists in Tbilisi were native Georgians. Their cultural commitment to family is too great. Their reverence for the church is too great. I think the Georgian government probably saw “voicing” support for “minority” rights as a way to curry favor with the Americans, without really having to do anything.

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