The main instinct

"We live in a specific dense country." This phrase at the beginning of his text about the gay parade was written by Anton Oresh. I can not disagree, in a dense. Only, in my opinion, not at all because for the masses they are not ready to fight for the rights of gays. Gays, despite Buch on May 27, live in Russia not so badly. The American gay community took almost 40 years to achieve tangible rights. For the first time, they openly announced them in the summer of 1969-and the police, by the way, met people who entered the streets of New York with batons and tear gas. And in Russia, the punitive article “For Male Sodigy” was canceled on May 27, 1993, and in the summer of 1998, Gaia already took part in the festive march on the Day of the State Flag of Russia. Yes, Western sex media did not dream of this! It was essentially a real gay parade, although a small one, only one column, but there was more people in it than gathered last Saturday by the Alexander Garden. It was an organized delegation, as usual, in feathers, chains, scarves and hats, which unfolded the enormous banner of "free Russia - free love over its painted platform." The audience glanced at them with surprise, but without any hostility. The Moscow Komsomolets gave a large article about the march.

And now, sexuals have become a victim of not at all the intolerance of Russian citizens, but a changing political conjuncture. The authorities are thinking about whether to seriously cling to Orthodoxy for a long time. But, it seems, he does not quite understand the measure of this “seriously”. The church in every possible way in this mindset supports it, simultaneously initiating one public project after another. Now she has launched the struggle for “special Orthodox” human rights-gays have become a kind of trump card in this struggle. It is necessary to explain that the churches do not like the standard Western human rights. Well, they absolutize the sovereignty of an individual, well, they indulge in egoism ... But this is all abstraction, and specifically, specifically bad? So - they protect the rights of gays and lesbians. Who was only at the last World Russian Folk Cathedral, where the Orthodox human rights concept was discussed, the unfortunate gays did not mention. Could the mayor Yuri Luzhkov allow the gay parade after that? And the child understands that he could not.

But in St. Petersburg, where the voice of Orthodox hierarchs is heard weaker or, perhaps, listen to it not with such thoroughness, the gay parade of the same on May 27 took place perfectly-not in honor of the abolition of the “Successful” article, but in honor of the founding of St. Petersburg. Yes, not somewhere, but on Nevsky Prospekt, and in the immediate vicinity of the Catholic

. It was there that gays and transvestites built their own stage, on which they depicted absolutely everything they wanted. The poor parishioners were forced to gather on the Mass in the chapel - there was such a noise in the temple that nothing was heard. What, the inhabitants of Peter are more tolerant? Catholics parishioners are more tolerant: they only exchanged woeful remarks on their site and were going to pray “for these people”. And the authorities and hierarchs? Yes, you know, in St. Petersburg, after all, in the summer the Summit “Big Eight”, so it is not up to the Orthodox concept of human rights, while other games and the rules are others.

Yes, in a dense country we live. It’s truly here “human rights are becoming an instrument of emancipation of instinct, and the concepts of good and evil are mixed” - this is from the speech of Metropolitan Cyril in the cathedral. That's just the main instinct is not at all the same that all normal people have. Our main instinct is imperious. And God for us is a policy, before which everyone is inclined, both church leaders and gays (I don’t even mention officials).

There was no consent among Russian gays regarding the parade: many

in his timeliness. However, Nikolai Alekseev, one of the leaders of the gay movement, really wanted to draw a parade under his auspices and call him the “first”. Here, honor, and fame, and cooperation with the West. For the sake of his leadership ambitions, he was ready to sacrifice the usual form of conducting this kind of processions: bright tinsel, songs and dances, bare torso, transvestites in swimsuits - that is, all the delights of the bodily bottom, which demonstrated the parade in St. Petersburg. Politics in this case was even more important for Alekseev than ideology.

As a result, everyone is compromised.

The authorities, which calls for living by law, but the very first violates it in the name of its momentary interests, and even clearly plays along with the fascist fellows - almost all reporters noted that the riot police were very gently treated with “went hunting” by the skins and nationalists.

The Moscow Patriarchate, whose leaders urge to live in spirit, but, cooperating for the sake of their power ambitions with radical forces like the Union of Orthodox Citizens/Borestine, liberate the smallest instincts in people.

And gays who are trying to defend “their pride”-the festival, in the framework of which the procession was planned, was called “pride-2006”-but in the types of “political future”, in fact, they show a farce instead of pride. After all, you must admit, this is a farce: a gay parade, gathered in order to lay flowers at the grave of an unknown soldier.