Gay parade not a human right

Plans for a gay pride parade in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius have met with fierce opposition. The daily Lietuvos Žinios is nonetheless of the opinion that a ban would by no means contravene human rights: "If Sweden's minister for European Union affairs and MPs and gays from other countries attend such a parade, they are interfering in the domestic affairs of Lithuania. What would we say if Russian neo-Bolshevists and [Russian nationalist Vladimir] Shirinovski landed here? ... Homosexuals have the right to live according to their nature. But such parades are an aggressive display of the propagation of homosexuality in a blunted consumer society that has nothing to do with freedom of expression and association."

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