Ukrainian Lawmakers Change their Minds on LGBT Rights [Why?]
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| The EU helped bring Same Sex marriage in the Uk and now it helps a former satellite of the Soviet Union accepts LGBT rights. |
Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a bill that bans discrimination of gays, key legislation intended to help pave the way for visa-free travel between Ukraine and the European Union.
The 450-seat parliament on Thursday approved the bill with 234 votes. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hailed parliament's action as a "historic" move that brought the nation close to its longtime goal of winning the visa-free regime.
Ukrainian authorities have sought to forge closer ties with the EU amid a conflict with Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and supported pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine.
The bill banning discrimination of gays at workplace had been rejected on four previous attempts, reflecting a strong opposition from those in parliament who saw the document as a challenge to the country’s Orthodox Christian traditions.
It’s not that the Ukrainian Parliament is pro gay civil rights. These people were satellites of the USSR for an eternity in political years. After the USSR fell apart the European Union pushed for these nations allied with the former Soviet Union to be able to join the west’s European Union and incorporate themselves to the democracies of the West.
The European Union proposed to the Ukraine to join them and be able to get Europeans travel there and visa verse without visas which is unwelcome for tourist and other business. The Ukrainians being in a bind of having to import natural Gas from Russia and other staples was anxious to strike a deal with the West to help untangled itself front he Soviet Union. But then the EU asked for the LGBT to have equal rights. There the old fashioned conservatives in Ukraine’s parliament balked and the EU said good bye!.
Well, the Ukrainians have had a change of heart. Bread on the table is better than caring who loves whom. They have agreed to change positions and join the EU with their rules on Civil Rights. If the Republican in the US congress were dependent on the EU we would have had gay marriage a long time ago without a Supreme Court decision.
So as much credit we would like to give it to the Ukrainian Congress I will give all the credit to the EU!!!
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