(LifeSiteNews) — A majority of the 150 Georgia parliament members in a country that borders Russia to the south have thumbed their nose at the pro-homosexual West by taking a bold stand for traditional family values.
On Tuesday, the roughly 90 percent Orthodox nation’s lawmakers defied EU pressure and adopted the Family Values bill on September 17 in an 84-0 vote. The ruling Georgian Dream party provided the necessary votes for the bill, which mirrors a similar measure passed in Russia several years ago.
Among other things, the legislation allows for the banning of public displays of so-called “Pride” events, including annual marches, as well as the legal censuring of trans and other deviant sexual behaviors in films and books. The country’s civil code had already defined marriage as being between one man and one woman.
Jvari Monastery, Mtskheta, Republic of Georgia. Image credit: Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
