Outrage after same-sex couple effigy burned at Croatian festival

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Outrage after same-sex couple effigy burned at Croatian festival

February 24, 2020

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia’s president and government joined activists Monday in expressing outrage at the burning during a carnival of an effigy showing a same-sex couple with their child.

The incident occurred Sunday in the southern town of Imotski. A large effigy showing two men embracing each other was torched in front of cheering festival goers to the sound of the funeral music.

President Zoran Milanovic condemned the incident as an “inhumane, totally unacceptable act.” He demanded that the organizers apologize, while an LGBT group announced legal action.

“The event was observed by many children who could witness the spreading of hatred and inciting to violence,” Milanovic said in a statement.

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[dududud]

Very good.

[Jana]

This was symbolic message against same sex-adoption, which Croatian citizens defacto refused on referendum few years ago, defining marriage as Union of male and female. And now government is trying to legalise gay adoptions against people's will.

[Daos777]

This was symbolic message against same sex-adoption, which Croatian citizens defacto refused on referendum few years ago, defining marriage as Union of male and female. And now government is trying to legalise gay adoptions against people's will.

But your western brothers all legalized it. Don’t you want Croatia to be more western?

[Jana]

But your western brothers all legalized it. Don’t you want Croatia to be more western?

Croatia is Catholic like traditional west always was.

[Rædwald]

Thank you Croatia!

[Viridian1]

I still believe it is part of social engineering and gays and lesbians are just a tool.

[ixulescu]

Croatia is Catholic like traditional west always was.

Catholic West has legalized gay adoptions. Homosexuality is indeed traditional in the West. Let's see how really Western you are.

[Jana]

Catholic West has legalized gay adoptions. Homosexuality is indeed traditional in the West. Let's see how really Western you are.

No, it 's not Catholic at all. Catholic church stance on this is known. And most Catholic country in Europe is Poland, where abortion is illegal, not to mention gay adoption.

[ixulescu]

No, it 's not Catholic at all. Catholic church stance on this is known. And most Catholic country in Europe is Poland, where abortion is illegal, not to mention gay adoption.

Poland is not Western. Catholic Western countries have legalized gay adoption.