Concern about Lithuania's reputation abroad

Eglė Digrytė comments with an ironic undertone on a new Lithuanian law for the protection of the young on the news portal Delfi: "With their new law the MPs have garnered more attention for Lithuania than any expert on international relations could have done. … When has the world heard word of Lithuania? When one of us sent St. Bruno to the eternal hunting grounds. When Vytautas the Great made Lithuania a great state through his victory at the Battle of Grunwald [in 1410]. And after that, so people say, we were involved in the Jewish Holocaust. People on both sides of the Atlantic can still recall that particular sin. … So it was only logical that we draw up a law according to which all people are good, but some are better. The good are those who protect the threatened children's souls of the 21st century against the dangers of the world, but only those who do it 'properly' (please excuse my writing in a way that is suitable for all ages, for otherwise I would fear punishment for endangering the sexual orientation of young people)."

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