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
mountain grammy
(26,632 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 19, 2019, 10:32 AM - Edit history (1)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/14/christian-nationalists-bills-religious-freedom-project-blitztrev
(1,480 posts)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.
mountain grammy
(26,632 posts)Theyre back to work.
trev
(1,480 posts)Two of these groups still exist.
My point was that we could have stopped them decades ago, but we did nothing.
mountain grammy
(26,632 posts)Canoe52
(2,949 posts)yardwork
(61,672 posts)It's important to recognize the direct line of connection between Putin and Chechnya.
This is Putin.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)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)...Jews and early Christians. The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were NOT sexual sins:
In Ezekiel 16:4850, 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