Sunday, May 25, 2014

Gays sacrifice Pride to come to rescue of Balkan flood victims

LGBT rights campaigners have ditched Pride Week to come to the rescue of the flooding victims in Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Europe’s Balkans region has been faced with its worst natural disaster in 120 years with floods killing people and animals and destroying homes, crops and businesses.
Now Gayten-LGBT, one of the region’s leading lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex organizations, has revealed how its members are trying to help.
On 16 May, they decided to cancel all their actions planned for Pride Week and for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) the next day. Milan Djuric of Gayten-LGBT said: ‘Everybody here is trying to help out in the best way they can. ‘We have been volunteering in help centers, collecting food, clothes, hygiene and cosmetic products, helping out with the evacuees, providing psychological help, etc.
‘The spirit of the people and the ways they have been employing to help flood victims are remarkable – where government failed to protect its citizens before and after the flood, people themselves took actions of solidarity and mutual aid. ‘Together with our fellow partners here, we are taking action. We need any kind of help!’
Duric said ‘the best way is to send help in food, clothes, etc, directly to help centers anywhere in Serbia’ rather than to send money. ‘Gayten-LGBT calls out to their friends and allies in the world to support the people affected by the floods,’ he added. ‘Our heartfelt solidarity goes out to all the people who have lost their homes and people they love in this catastrophe. We hope that the floods ease down soon, the rivers recede and that the needed help reaches the people as soon as possible.’

A noble, thoughtful, caring thing to do, and how did the Christian community in Serbia respond?

Eastern Orthodox Church Leaders Claim Conchita Wurst Caused Floods In Balkan Peninsula

From the Towleroad:
Of the many superpowers that drag queens posses - razor wit, flawless reading abilities, livers of granite - controlling the weather is not one of them. Eastern European religious leaders, however, are unaware of this fact and are blaming Conchita Wurst winning Eurovision 2014 for the floods in the Balkan Peninsula. Said Patriarch Amfilohije of Montenegro,
God sent the rains as a reminder that people should not join the wild side God is thus washing Serbia of its sins.
So not only does the Almighty watch Eurovision, but the victory of an Austrian drag queen sends Him into such a tantrum that he destroys the lives of some 150,000 people in a completely unrelated country to express His dissatisfaction. That makes sense.



 

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