Michael W. Chapman, the homophobic CNSNews.com managing editor, was more than happy to recount an anti-gay freakout in Belarus over a rainbow flag at the British embassy there:
After the British Embassy in Belarus flew a rainbow-gay flag above its front door on May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, the Interior Ministry issued a statement denouncing the U.K.’s actions as contrary to the “traditional family” and the “Christian” values of Belarusians.
The Interior Ministry also stressed that “same-sex relationships” are “fake” because only a man and a woman together can produce children, and added that the Belarus government will protect traditional marriage and give it exclusive rights in the law.
In a May 17 Instagram post showing the rainbow flag, the U.K. Embassy said that it had posted “a rainbow flag today to support the LGBT community and draw public attention to the discrimination that LGBT people are constantly facing.”
In reaction, the statement by the Belarus Interior Ministry said that Britain was challenging the country’s “traditional values,” reported the BBC.
“The overwhelming majority of Belarusians stick to traditional family values, including Christian ones,” said the Interior Ministry. “And such statements [by the British] are a challenge to these values.”
Relationships between men and women are the “only way of reproduction,” said the Ministry. “No matter which way you look at it, a same-sex relationship is a fake. And the essence of the fake is always the same — the erosion of the truth.”
“The LGBT community and the whole struggle for its rights and this community’s [homophobia] day itself are all just fake!” said the Interior Ministry.
Chapman curiously didn’t mention something that was in the BBC article: “In a report last year, human rights group Amnesty International said the LGBT community faced growing discrimination in Belarus as a result of repressive government policies.” Then again, he’s probably down that that type of repression.