by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead
The former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan is moving to ban the promulgation of “LGBT propaganda” online or in media, following in the footsteps of both Slovakia and Hungary. Slovakia recently passed a constitutional amendment affirming the sex binary and restricting adoption to heterosexual couples, and Hungary amended the 2021 Child Protection Act, which bans LGBT ideology in schools and LGBT propaganda on primetime TV to include a ban on Pride demonstrations.
Georgia passed a similar law to establish a legal basis to ban Pride events and LGBT propaganda last year; the law included a ban on sex changes and restricted adoption to heterosexual couples. Same-sex “marriage” is already banned in Georgia, and Al Jazeera reported that “leaders of the governing Georgian Dream party say [the law] is needed to safeguard ‘traditional moral standards’ in Georgia, whose deeply conservative Orthodox Church is highly influential.”
On October 29, according to U.S. News & World Report, a Kazakh “working group of members of parliament approved amendments introducing the penalties for what it views as propaganda for non-traditional relationships and paedophilia,” which can constitute up to ten days in prison for repeat offenders. The amendments “will likely pass when brought to a full vote in parliament, which is dominated by legislator loyal to the Kazakh authorities” (that is, the government).
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who is expected to sign the amendments into law, has frequently condemned the Western-funded international campaign to impose LGBT ideology on other countries.
“For decades, so-called democratic moral values, including LGBT, were imposed,” he stated in a speech to the National Congress in March. “This was done by international non-governmental funds and organizations. And under this guise, international non-governmental funds grossly interfered in the internal affairs of many strange states.”
Under the guise of “democracy,” Tokayev stated, international organizations have been seeking to undermine the traditional values of societies around the world, interfering with laws and cultural norms in order to culturally colonize other nations. Indeed, a “human rights consultant” Tatiana Chernobyl told Reuters that the amendments would “legitimize open discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
This is yet another example of LGBT activist tactics: They seek to change a culture, but when they face pushback, they claim that those resisting their agenda are the ones seeking change.