The Ukraine people are much more open and accepting of LGBTQ+ community than the Russians. It will be a horror for non-Christians and us.
Russian victory in Ukraine would be 'complete religious freedom catastrophe,' human rights leader warns
Pro-Putin breakaway regions have forced churches, mosques, and synagogues to reregister with authorities, using former houses of worship as military facilities
Fox News
By Tyler O'Neil
March 3, 2022
A human rights expert has warned that a Russian victory in Ukraine would prove a "catastrophe" for religious freedom, considering Russian President Vladimir Putin's record and the record of the pro-Putin breakaway regions in Ukraine."If Ukraine falls, it will be a complete religious freedom catastrophe for countless faith communities," Tina Ramirez, president and executive director of the Richmond, Virginia, based human rights nonprofit Hardwired Global, told Fox News Digital. "For evidence, we need look no further than what is already the case in Russia itself and in the Russia-controlled Ukraine regions Luhansk and Donetsk."
"Media sources, religious freedom activists, the OCU, Muslims, Protestant churches, and Jehovah’s Witnesses stated that Russia-backed authorities in the Russia-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts (regions) continued to exert pressure on minority religious groups," according to a 2020 State Department report on religious freedom in Ukraine.
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"Through Hardwired, the non-profit I founded, I’ve worked in some of the worst religious freedom situations in the world, including Sudan, Nigeria, and Iraq," Ramirez told Fox News Digital. "The religious freedom situation in Russia, Luhansk, and Donetsk ranks right up there with these others. It’s truly abysmal."
That is why Putin is such a darling for the evangelical Christians, they adore his persecution of non-Christians and the LGBTQ community.
MSNBC said in an article that,
While the world looks on in horror as Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfolds, one group has been praising Russian President Vladimir Putin. It turns out Putin has a fan base in America’s right-leaning evangelical politicians and pundits.
At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which wrapped up over the weekend, Lauren Witzke, a GOP candidate for the Senate in Delaware, said: “Here’s the deal. Russia is a Christian nationalist nation. They’re actually Russian Orthodox. ... I identify more with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”
What about us?
Will Russia bring its war on LGBTQ people to Ukraine?
LA Times
By Kate Linthicum
March 3, 2022
Zi Faámelu wants to escape the war in Ukraine, but her identity will not let her.The 31-year-old singer, who is transgender, has a passport that says she is male, the sex assigned to her at birth, and Ukraine has prohibited men of fighting age from leaving the country.
That paradox has left Faámelu hunkered inside her Kyiv apartment as missiles soar all around her. She is considering following other transgender women who have crossed into Poland illegally through the woods in the week since Russia invaded.
“Already we were fighting for our lives,” she said. “And now we’re actually in war.”
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Over the last two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has waged an all-out assault on the LGBTQ community, framing it as part of a larger campaign to protect Russia’s “traditional culture” from what he describes as an onslaught of modern values promoted by the West.
Putin has called gender fluidity “a crime against humanity,” and equated homosexuality with pedophilia.
LGBTQ people doesn’t fit Putin’s macho image, like most hyper-males they have a phobia being seen as weak and emasculated and he over compensates by brutality.
A “gay propaganda” law passed in Russia in 2013 made it illegal to promote gay rights and has been used to jail activists and shut down LGBTQ support groups. And during a series of anti-gay purges in Russia’s Muslim-majority Chechen Republic, in which officials kidnapped, tortured and in some cases killed men suspected of having sex with other men, the Kremlin turned a blind eye.
At the same time, life for LGBTQ people in Ukraine has slowly been improving.
CBS News reported that,
"Ukraine is a European country. We have a 10-year history of Pride marches, and as you know, in Russia, the situation is like opposite," Edward Reese, project assistant for Kyiv Pride, told CBS News. "We have totally different paths. ... We see the changes in people's thoughts about human rights, LGBTQ, feminism and so on. ... So definitely we don't want anything connected to Russia … and we won't have them."
Iulia said that while Ukraine still has a long way to go, it was making real progress in terms of acceptance of LGBTQ people.
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"It's much more safer than in Russia, believe me. It's much easier," she said.
But now it going to become a living hell for us in the Russia controlled Ukraine.
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