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Hellfire and Brimstone mounts, and gets thrown off, its hobby horse

Jun 18, 2009
By Darius James Ross

Friends of mine – a heterosexual ex-pat couple who don’t speak Lithuanian – recently asked me about a forthcoming law that would make any public expression of homosexual identity a punishable offense.  Although it’s true that a lone Lithuanian legislator presented such an amendment to the Seimas  (Lithuanian parliament) on June 11, the story was sexed up (excuse the pun) by local media in the name of ratings and clicks. In a classic case of broken telephone, my friends had ...

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