Guess by what religious group?
Wait for it...
wait for it...
you guessed it!
Christian fundamentalists!
From huffpo:
QuoteThe French website Yagg has posted video (with English translations) of a gay 'kiss-in' that took place in Paris despite various reported threats of violence.
Towleroad has a translation of the report:
"The "kiss-in" had originally been planned to take place in front of Notre Dame Cathedral but Christian Fundamentalist websites called in to "defend their faith against this provocation" using 'aids bags', 'sodomites' and other homophobic insults. The websites called for a violent response so the organizers decided to change the location to place Saint Michel in the nearby Latin Quarter, after the police strongly encouraged it, saying they could not protect them in case of trouble. The kiss in was held peacefully at St-Michel but some gays went to Notre Dame anyway and witnesses are saying 200 Christian activists were expecting them, and after they started kissing, they were attacked with motorbike helmets and kicked."
Just posting this to show the Christian fundamentalists (at least in the West, where, unlike muslims in Iran, they are NOT running their own theocracies) are as bad as the Muslim ones. I hope the Republic takes steps to curb this brand of fundies as well.
:nelson:
I'm surprised there's still some of them in France. Don't worry Marti, they'll be tortured & reeducated.
Knowing the French they will probably herd them into ghetto's and forbid the wearing of pink.
:nelson:
Am I the only one who notices a certain pattern in the threads Martinus starts?
Quote from: DGuller on February 15, 2010, 07:33:37 AM
Am I the only one who notices a certain pattern in the threads Martinus starts?
There is no pattern. Martinus is just a blip ni the Matrix. Don't draw attention to yourself.
Quote"The "kiss-in" had originally been planned to take place in front of Notre Dame Cathedral
They should have tried to do it in front of a mosque.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on February 15, 2010, 07:34:13 AM
Quote from: DGuller on February 15, 2010, 07:33:37 AM
Am I the only one who notices a certain pattern in the threads Martinus starts?
There is no pattern. Martinus is just a blip ni the Matrix. Don't draw attention to yourself.
There is no poon.
Quote from: DGuller on February 15, 2010, 07:33:37 AM
Am I the only one who notices a certain pattern in the threads Martinus starts?
that they're so precdictably anti-french?
As it should be.
:nelson:
Only fair. Christians can't publicly display their thing. Why should gays?
At first I thought it said Persian gays and wondered what the big deal was.
Quote from: Alexandru H. on February 15, 2010, 07:41:41 AM
Quote"The "kiss-in" had originally been planned to take place in front of Notre Dame Cathedral
They should have tried to do it in front of a mosque.
That or in front of Saint Nicolas du Chardonnet church, squatted by Lefebvrists and the like (Society of Saint Pius X). They even managed to get excommuniated by John Paul II...
Their relationship with extreme-right wings movements is nothing new and guess what, the same extreme-right wing are likely to be behind the assault.
PS:
This is not the first time and it's a good PR exercise for all parties involved...
Imagine how dissapointed Marty would be if the gays guys had not been attacked - not to mention the gay guys!
My initial reaction to this was "pox on both your houses". Mass sexual activity for political purposes in front of a Church, especially one as grand as Notre Dame, is insanely disrespectful. I'd say that of heterosexuals, too.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 15, 2010, 12:37:33 PM
My initial reaction to this was "pox on both your houses". Mass sexual activity for political purposes in front of a Church, especially one as grand as Notre Dame, is insanely disrespectful. I'd say that of heterosexuals, too.
Pff. A monument to superstition built on the backs of the workers and peasants of France.
Quote from: Faeelin on February 15, 2010, 12:39:36 PM
Pff. A monument to superstition built on the backs of the workers and peasants of France.
:huh:
I'm goaded easily, not Martinus-easily. Though goading-my-goad is clever.
That sounds like something Brain would do.
gheys kissing, ew gross...
Quote from: Faeelin on February 15, 2010, 12:39:36 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on February 15, 2010, 12:37:33 PM
My initial reaction to this was "pox on both your houses". Mass sexual activity for political purposes in front of a Church, especially one as grand as Notre Dame, is insanely disrespectful. I'd say that of heterosexuals, too.
Pff. A monument to superstition built on the backs of the workers and peasants of France.
They got paid pretty well for it and the thing has paid for itself many times over.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 15, 2010, 12:37:33 PM
My initial reaction to this was "pox on both your houses". Mass sexual activity for political purposes in front of a Church, especially one as grand as Notre Dame, is insanely disrespectful. I'd say that of heterosexuals, too.
I would have thought anything goes in front of the Temple of Liberty.
So there's no video or pictures of this 'brutal assault'?
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on February 15, 2010, 09:00:18 PM
So there's no video or pictures of this 'brutal assault'?
It was too graphic to share, apparently.
I'd say these ones had it coming for the stunt they tried to pull. This is like those people who went to that biker rally and tried to start shit with the bikers over their leather jackets and ended up in dumpsters.
Jaron, you are retarded to compare the two. PDAs are not restricted in front of the Notre Dame cathedral, and many straight couples kiss there. Or are you saying there are parts of the public space that are offlimits to the gay couples specifically, even if straight couples may engage in the same activity in such places?
Quote from: Queequeg on February 15, 2010, 12:37:33 PM
My initial reaction to this was "pox on both your houses". Mass sexual activity for political purposes in front of a Church, especially one as grand as Notre Dame, is insanely disrespectful. I'd say that of heterosexuals, too.
Kissing is not a "sexual activity".
Besides, the point is moot - the kissers were assaulted for being "deviants" and "sodomites", not for being "disrespectful". There are weddings held in churches and people kiss during these, too.
All people who commit PDAs should be brutally assaulted, regardless of sexual orientation.
Especially straight chicks that do it for attention.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 16, 2010, 06:45:16 AM
All people who commit PDAs should be brutally assaulted, regardless of sexual orientation.
Especially straight chicks that do it for attention.
Oh I agree with that sentiment. But I will oppose situations where gay people are assaulted for PDAs that do not turn heads when straight couples engage in them.
I have the same position on this as I do on marriage - it's an idiotic hoax, but if straights can engage in it, then gays should be able to do it too.
Quote from: Martinus on February 16, 2010, 06:47:06 AM
but if straights can engage in it, then gays should be able to do it too.
Meh, I ain't got a problem with that. Knock yourselves out.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 16, 2010, 06:45:16 AM
All people who commit PDAs should be brutally assaulted, regardless of sexual orientation.
Especially straight chicks that do it for attention.
Verily.
Gays are not the equals of regular people, and in order to understand why the world is what it is, you have to understand that.