No later than two days after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, a non-governmental organisation with the Orwellian title ‘Free Society Institute’ despatched a public letter to the Lithuanian parliament urging it to postpone the listening to of the gender-neutral Partnership Legislation (the Parliament is ready to vote it within the coming weeks).
This invoice has been excessive on the agenda of the anti-gender motion in Lithuania, along with numerous different ‘controversial’ points, such because the ratification of the so-called Istanbul Conference (the Council of Europe Conference on stopping and combating violence towards ladies and home violence) and the decriminalization of the possession of small quantities of medication.
Exploiting the fear at present gripping Lithuanian society, these people and teams determined to behave swiftly with a view to erase these human rights points from the political agenda for an unforeseeable time period.
The irony, or, quite, the predictable tendency of those developments is that the place of those anti-gender activists repeats verbatim the ‘conventional values’ ideology promoted by the Kremlin.
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The Free Society Institute’s letter requested the Lithuanian Parliament to chorus from discussing points which may ‘divide Lithuanian residents’ and threaten the soundness of the ‘conventional household’ and the very foundation of society. In a matter of some days, their arguments have been echoed by the member of parliament Agnė Širinskienė, a theologian and a lawyer, and a identified advocate of conservative causes.
She insisted that as a result of ‘geopolitical tensions’ in Europe, the ‘divisive’ questions ought to be erased from the agenda, and even registered a movement to stop the invoice from being debated within the parliamentary spring session. Within the meantime, the MPs have been flooded with threatening emails and textual content messages by defenders of the standard household urging them to not talk about the Partnership …