Batumi Congregation against Gay Parade

Information about the gay parade on August 26th, in the new boulevard of Batumi, has been disseminating for a week now. Though, nobody has requested official information for conducting gay parade from Tbilisi City Hall. The local Batumi congregation is against the conducting of gay parade. They held the protest rally again yesterday.

“We are here for the spiritual redeeming of the nation. No such parade should be held in our city, because we are orthodox people and this is the profanation of the whole nation,” – states the Batumi congregation.

The congregation distributed fliers in the streets with the following text: “We are challenging everyone to be united for protection of our country and our city to save it from the parade of profanation. Today, each citizen needs to express its protest against similar wrongness.”

In front of Batumi Cathedral, father Teimuraz read an extract from Ruisi-Urbnisi church meeting: “Abnormal sexual relationship is the heaviest sin the committer of which should be liberated from this with praying, communion and confession to be saved from the baleful wrath of hell…” The congregation read paternoster.

The representative of Public Defender’s Office in Batumi, George Charkviani notes: “According to Georgian constitution, every citizen has right of free speech and expression and free movement. Hence, these people have right to conduct a parade.”