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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 09:33 AM Jan 2019

Activists: Chechen Authorities Order Families to Kill LGBT Family Members, Also Pay Ransoms

Source: The Daily Beast



According to campaigners, families in Chechnya are being ordered to kill their LGBT relatives, with authorities also demanding money for the release of detained LGBT relatives.

Anna Nemtsova
01.18.19 10:50 PM ET

Russian campaigners have told The Daily Beast that Chechen authorities have ordered people to kill LGBT members of their own families, and have demanded ransoms for the release of detained LGBT relatives.

According to reports, at least 40 people have been arrested in the last two to three weeks, many of them tortured, in a new crackdown against LGBT people in Chechnya. Two gay men have reportedly died following torture.

“Chechen authorities demanded that relatives punish their gay family members by executing them,” one of the St. Petersburg volunteers for the Russian LGBT Network, who did not wish to be named, told The Daily Beast. “Several people who managed to escape have been raped with police clubs and tortured with electricity.”

The detentions were reportedly carried out by law enforcement officers in the southern city of Argun.


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/activists-chechen-authorities-demand-families-kill-lgbt-family-members-also-pay-ransoms?ref=home

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Activists: Chechen Authorities Order Families to Kill LGBT Family Members, Also Pay Ransoms (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
several state legislatures are determined to make that happen in America mountain grammy Jan 2019 #1
They've been pursuing these things since 1970. trev Jan 2019 #3
January 2019. Right now mountain grammy Jan 2019 #4
Yes, of course. trev Jan 2019 #5
Agree mountain grammy Jan 2019 #7
Sure are some sick people in the world. Canoe52 Jan 2019 #2
Putin installed a puppet in Chechnya. These policies against gay people mirror Putin's beliefs. yardwork Jan 2019 #6
Chechnya is predominantly a Muslim country. Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2019 #8
First of all, the Koran utilizes some of the same myths for its doctrine as do... Raster Jan 2019 #9

trev

(1,480 posts)
3. They've been pursuing these things since 1970.
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 10:10 PM
Jan 2019

The movement started with Henry Morris' Institute for Creation Research, grew in1979 with Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, and attained national power with Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition in 1989.

The left did not recognize the danger in these movements.

trev

(1,480 posts)
5. Yes, of course.
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:33 PM
Jan 2019

Two of these groups still exist.

My point was that we could have stopped them decades ago, but we did nothing.

yardwork

(61,672 posts)
6. Putin installed a puppet in Chechnya. These policies against gay people mirror Putin's beliefs.
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 02:36 PM
Jan 2019

It's important to recognize the direct line of connection between Putin and Chechnya.

This is Putin.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
8. Chechnya is predominantly a Muslim country.
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 08:47 PM
Jan 2019

From the Koran: "Allah curses the one who does the actions of the People of Lut."

"the actions" refers to homosexual intimacy.

"Lut" refers to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Will the U N release a statement ?

Raster

(20,998 posts)
9. First of all, the Koran utilizes some of the same myths for its doctrine as do...
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 10:44 AM
Jan 2019

...Jews and early Christians. The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were NOT sexual sins:

In Ezekiel 16:48–50, God compares Jerusalem to Sodom, saying "Sodom never did what you and your daughters have done." He explains that the sin of Sodom was that "She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me."

Further:

In fact, the Bible itself expressly describes the sin of Sodom elsewhere as radical inhospitality. According to the prophet Ezekiel, the real “guilt” of the Sodomites was the fact that, although they had “pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease,” they “did not aid the poor and needy” and were “haughty” (Ezekiel 16:49-50). Similarly, the Letter to the Hebrews warns Christians by alluding to the true sin of the Sodomites as inhospitality: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it” (Hebrews 13:2).

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-patrick-s-cheng-phd/what-was-the-real-sin-of_b_543996.html

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