Lawmakers are now working on a new version of the Marriage and
Family Code that already bans people known to be gay from adopting
children. This is where the anti-gay changes are expected to appear
soon.
The legal ban is highly called for, according to Bolashak's leader
Dauren Babamuratov, 30, because the Kazakh society has been experiencing
a lot of pressure from its gay members over the past several years.
Babamuratov continued by saying that "unconfirmed reports suggest
there are about 14 gay clubs and bars in Almaty" with effectively "made
Almaty the gay capital of Central Asia", and expressing his outrage at
the fact that "open discussion of the issues related to LGBT community
is treated by the society as a natural process".
To support the claims that gay propaganda existed in Kazakhstan the
chief speaker reminded about the scandal over the now infamous ads
poster depicting a local version of the world famous gay smooch, this
one between two historical figures – one Kazakh, the other – Russian.
The poster caused quite a stir among Kazakhstanis and several political
figures even slammed it publicly. A law suit was filed against the poster creators.
"We have stooped so low that LGBTs no longer hide their orientation.
One can see a lot of people in the city's malls and other public places —
these are young people in coloured pants. This means they no longer
hide their (sexual) orientation. I think it is very easy to identify a
gay person by his or her DNA. A blood test can show the presence of
degeneratism in a person," said Dauren Babamuratov, the leader of the Kazakh
national.
Head of the Youth Policies Department of the Akmaty Akimat (Municipal
Authorities) Sanzhar Bokayev, who was the only representative of the
city administration at the meeting, declared that Kazakhstan's gay
community was "supported and funded from abroad". "This is a big problem
that concerns our society," he said.
Secretary of the People's Communist Party Yelnur Beisenbayev
supported the speakers and went as far as saying that gay people were sick, they where criminals and deserved a much harsher treatment.
"Besides the legal ban of the propaganda we should also adopt an
anti-sodomy law like the one we had during the Soviet time. We need
these laws, to makes these (gay) people ashamed of themselves in our
society," he said. The anti-sodomy law he was talking about was
cancelled in Kazakhstan only in 1998.
Nagashybay Yesmyrza, a journalist known for calling Adolf Hitler a war
hero, tagged representatives of the LGBT as degenerates and used his
favorite rhetoric: "To preserve the Aryan race it was important that blood was not mixed. Hitler was against all those gay people," he said.
But when asked by the journalists how a same-sex union could possibly
"mix blood" and produce a child, he had no adequate answer.
Earlier, Aldan Smayil, a Member of the Parliament's Lower Chamber,
the Majilis, said that Kazakhstan needed a legislation that would enable
it to close down gay clubs and bring their owners to justice. He
also declared that the idea of gay pride parades in Kazakhstan was
unacceptable.
The MP said that representatives of sexual minorities needed the help of psychologists, and promised to make sure that law enforcement
authorities would tighten their control over the people organizing
events in support of the LGBT movement.
It's a shame they haven't found a cure for willful stupidity, something greatly needed, but not only in Kazakhstan.
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If they found a cure for stupid they would repress the information because smart people don' fill the coffers.
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