Tories’ Euro allies support “deeply homophobic” law

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Liberal Conspiracy has the story that one of David Cameron’s allies in the Tories’ new European group personally voated for a Lithuanian law that has been described as a harsher, more wide-reaching version of Britain’s Section 28.

LibCon says:

“The draconian Law on the Protection of Minors from the Detrimental Effects of Public Information bans discussion of homosexuality not only in schools but in any public places and media that could be accessed by young people.

Amnesty pointed out that if adopted, the proposals would also permit the prosecution of an extremely wide variety of activities, including campaigning on human rights issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, providing sexual health information to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people or the organization of gay film festivals, or Pride events.”

Tomaševski voted for the law on June 16th – just a week before he joined forces with the Tories.