Orthodox Christian activists before clashes with homosexual activists at an International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) rally in Tbilisi, May 17, 2013. (Reuters)

DANIEL S. writes:

Russia Today has an article about clashes between Orthodox Christians and homosexual protesters in the country of Georgia. What caught my attention was a passing acknowledgement that the acting U.S. ambassador Bridget Brink was present at the protests. Presumably she was present in a show of solidarity with the homosexual activists. (I cannot imagine she was there to support the Orthodox Church.) Which raises a further question, what role did the U.S. embassy and other American “NGO”s play in organizing and funding this rally in recognition of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia? The American state department has played a leading role in funding and organizing for homosexual “rights” across Eastern Europe. Why is this not an issue among supposed conservatives in America? Why don’t they protest against American tax dollars being used for moral subversion in other Christian countries?

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Buck writes:

The RT story says that the Georgian Prime Minister and parliament “voiced” support for the “minorities” rights, but the videos show the police barely making little effort to stop the seemingly in-charge anti-gay activists. This looks like a dead-cat bounce to me. Georgia wants to integrate with Europe and into NATO. They’re going to toe the modern liberal party line. What they “voiced,” they have also written into law. The Orthodox Christian population isn’t going to control the streets forever, and even if they do for a while, they obviously have no authority over the state. They’re not going to get support from anywhere in the West. Just like recently in France, the best and brightest flame out on the street, while the government moves on. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

This is an amateur speculation, but it seems to me that even if the Orthodox Church in Georgia is unique, and may still have a large measure of moral authority, the government is adamantly proclaiming the modern liberal gospel and what the government seems to wants is to get out from under the Russian bear.

There’s no stopping the force of modern liberalism, not under the current paradigm. We’re trying to push an immense load uphill, while the rest of the world is stumbling backwards, unconstrained, down hill against us. We’re lucky to get out of the way. It’s like the series of gears in a mechanical electric meter, like the one still on many houses. The large flat and delicate disk flies around effortlessly a thousand times to move the first of five dials from zero to one (of nine), then that one goes all the way around to move the next one from zero to one, and on and on for five dials. If you tried to turn the last dial backwards against five ten-to-one gears, you’d shatter the fifth gear, destroy the meter, and move nothing. It can’t be done. So, either we break the meter or we go off the grid? That’s how impossible this looks to me. Some one please, buck me up here.

Laura writes:

I disagree with this statement:

Just like recently in France, the best and brightest flame out on the street, while the government moves on.

François Hollande’s government is not doing well. See here and here.

Buck writes:

That statement was a reference to the remarkable and surprising rallies last week, that were intended to influence the vote of the French National Assembly. They didn’t. The assembly voted huge for homosexual marriage. The French senate did the same last month.

President Hollande has pledged to sign the bill. But, even if, by some great surprise he does not, France has had civil unions for more than a decade. The next step is inevitable. The stories about Hollande being an unpopular non-entity are about France’s lousy economic situation.

A steadily shrinking minority of voters don’t care one wit anymore about restricting what homosexuals do or about what special rights they’re given. People are shrugging their shoulders and saying “so what? What difference does it make?”.

The list of countries legalizing homosexual marriage is growing rapidly. New Zealand and Uruguay voted for homosexual marriage the week before. Similar proposals are on the table in a host of other countries. Our Supreme Court will decide for us this summer. I’m not optimistic. Our modern courts seem determined to lead us on social issues, rather than to constrain us. They’re consistently more liberal than we are. Prop 8 and DOMA are on thin ice.

 Laura writes:

The situation is not rosy, as I attempt to make clear virtually every day, but things are not as bleak as you say. The French National Assembly voted last month, not last week. And protests continue throughout France. A major rally in Paris is scheduled for next Sunday and is expected to be similar to the one that drew hundreds of thousands of people earlier in the winter. Protesters are not “flaming out.” They are calling for a repeal of the law. The New York Times article about Hollande’s unpopularity focuses purely on the economic situation, his popularity has declined because of this issue as well and it is not at all surprising that the Times ignores it.

Here is a statement translated at Galliawatch by the French group Pas Mon President:

Barely two days from the anniversary of François Hollande’s accession to power, but especially on the eve of demonstrations throughout all of France that strongly question the policies adopted by the government, the group Pas Mon Président is once again making its voice heard.

Note: The anniversary in question was May 6. The demonstrations took place May 5.

Almost one year ago, François Hollande was elected President of the French Republic by a minority of Frenchmen.

From the first day of his election, we launched the Hollande n’est pas mon président campaign and declared that François Hollande did not have the legitimacy to make the profound reforms his winning party claimed it would make.

The minority that believed in Hollande is now the last holdout before the fall.

In addition to his record unpopularity, a poll has shown that if the election were to be held today, François Hollande would not even qualify for the second round.

Here is a video posted at Galliawatch of Christiane Taubira’s visit to Lyons last week. Taubira, the Minister of Justice, is the author of the same-sex “marriage” law. Demonstrators show up wherever national ministers appear. You cannot see them in the video but you can hear them in the background.

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