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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:41 PM Oct 2017

Kim Davis is touring Romania to encourage the government to ban gay rights

Source: LGBTQNation



By Bil Browning · Tuesday, October 10, 2017


Disgraced Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis meeting with Romanian residents to push them to ban same-sex marriage. Liberty Counsel


Disgraced Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, infamous for going to jail over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is taking her anti-gay sideshow on the road. The lawless government official is in Romania exhorting citizens to take away the civil rights of gay people.

Davis is touring the country with Harry Mihet, Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Litigation Counsel for her attorneys at the religious right legal organization Liberty Counsel. The group has been designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

American fundamentalist Christians have joined forces with the Russian Orthodox Church to try to change Romania’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The country’s laws currently defines marriage as between “two spouses” and the advocates want it changed to “man and woman.”

Under Romanian law, the constitution can be changed if at least 500,000 residents petition the government for a change. The Coalition for the Family, a religious right group backed by the church, collected over 3 million signatures on the petition.

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/10/kim-davis-touring-romania-encourage-government-ban-gay-rights/

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Kim Davis is touring Romania to encourage the government to ban gay rights (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
In a republican paradise Turbineguy Oct 2017 #1
Can we revoke her passport? Initech Oct 2017 #2
maybe she should just go live there. barbtries Oct 2017 #3
Cold-blooded woman get the red out Oct 2017 #4
ffs hibbing Oct 2017 #5
Speading Hate Across the Globe Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #6
Every human on Earth only gets one life. christx30 Oct 2017 #7
Wow - such a nobody vaulted to fame for being a bigot meadowlark5 Oct 2017 #8
Wtf who is paying for this pos to tour Romania? kimbutgar Oct 2017 #9
The picture, above, was taken by 'Liberty Counsel' which, I assume,... DonViejo Oct 2017 #12
Whoa...GODDDDD...I'm sick of these people!!!! SpankMe Oct 2017 #10
Exporting hate is not new to false Christians PdxSean Oct 2017 #11
I consider these people my enemy. Religion is poison. YOHABLO Oct 2017 #13
Oh look, there is a Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church Dawson Leery Oct 2017 #14
Im lost... BlueIdaho Oct 2017 #15
Why can't these loving 'Christians' just mine their own business? Why must sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #16
Religious fascist Matthew28 Oct 2017 #17
K&R Solly Mack Oct 2017 #18
Kim Davis Is A Visual Boost... DoctorJoJo Oct 2017 #19
That's one evil sick pos rockfordfile Oct 2017 #20
And undoubtedly dealing a blow BaronChocula Oct 2017 #21
I thought she had a job? catrose Oct 2017 #22

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
6. Speading Hate Across the Globe
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:55 PM
Oct 2017

A woman that has been married four times knows what it takes to make a marriage work

christx30

(6,241 posts)
7. Every human on Earth only gets one life.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:57 PM
Oct 2017

This is what she chose to do with hers? Wants to take away rights and make things difficult for people because of whom they love?
Kim Davis: Anti-freedom.

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
8. Wow - such a nobody vaulted to fame for being a bigot
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:58 PM
Oct 2017

I'm sure she's enjoying all the perks that are coming with her new found status and fame. Who knew being a bigoted homophobe would have such lavish benefits?

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
12. The picture, above, was taken by 'Liberty Counsel' which, I assume,...
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 02:05 PM
Oct 2017

means they (or, probably they're faux xtian supporters) are paying for the trip.

SpankMe

(2,957 posts)
10. Whoa...GODDDDD...I'm sick of these people!!!!
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 02:02 PM
Oct 2017

They have endless energy to flail away at LGBT rights and dignity worldwide. Why? How? How much hate do they have that they go to all that trouble to fuck with LGBT rights? Don't they have lives at home with children, family, jobs, hobbies, target shooting?

We had that kook - what was his name, Scott Lively? - go to Africa and consult with Uganda on that kill-the-gays law. Now this Kim Davis loser going to Romania.

I wish the Dems would start putting out forceful, new policy statements on this and lay the groundwork now as to how they're going to address this in the future. Maybe some sort of restrictions on travel for people who leave the country to promote hate. (Define it as terrorism or something.) Can't we say that she has no free speech rights if she's outside the country? I'll grab on to anything here.

PdxSean

(574 posts)
11. Exporting hate is not new to false Christians
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 02:04 PM
Oct 2017

“For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
14. Oh look, there is a Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 03:24 PM
Oct 2017

Aside from mainline Protestants, Christianity garbage.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
16. Why can't these loving 'Christians' just mine their own business? Why must
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 03:57 PM
Oct 2017

they push their crappy beliefs on others?

Solly Mack

(90,769 posts)
18. K&R
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 04:55 PM
Oct 2017
American fundamentalist Christians have joined forces with the Russian Orthodox Church


In Expanding Russian Influence, Faith Combines With Firepower
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/europe/russia-orthodox-church.html

...While tanks and artillery have been Russia’s weapons of choice to project its power into neighboring Ukraine and Georgia, Mr. Putin has also mobilized faith to expand the country’s reach and influence. A fervent foe of homosexuality and any attempt to put individual rights above those of family, community or nation, the Russian Orthodox Church helps project Russia as the natural ally of all those who pine for a more secure, illiberal world free from the tradition-crushing rush of globalization, multiculturalism and women’s and gay rights....






Head of Russian Orthodox Church compares same-sex marriage to Nazism
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/05/30/head-of-russian-orthodox-church-compares-same-sex-marriage-to-nazism/

How Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/how-russia-became-a-leader-of-the-worldwide-christian-right-214755


The emerging alliance between Putin and Trump’s God squad
https://thinkprogress.org/religious-right-russia-3e80e2ea2e4a/


Moscow Cozies Up to the Right
http://time.com/4696424/moscow-right-kremlin-republicans/
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