"Let He Who Is Without Sin..."

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/06/061007romania.htm

At least the Romanian police and government can discern the bad guys from citizens expressing their right to free speech. That's more than I can say for Russia, where gay parade organizers were recently convicted of staging an "illegal" event.

They're calling this a 'gay rights parade'. That's smart, because in backward countries under the influence of fundamentalist religion, pride can be viewed as contemtable. American fundamentalists have tried to decry gay 'pride' in a similar fashion, but the fact is that there are all kinds of pride festivals (Irish, immigrant, Hispanic, etc.), so they'd be condemning those groups by extension.

Still, Eastern Europe is sadly behind the times, and still largely controlled by dominionist religious forces: Islam and Catholicism.