Croatia is one step closer to being Russia after a court ruled it illegal to call out the homophobia of Croatian journalist Karolina Vidović Krišto.
From Zagreb Pride:
vIn a recent decision, the Osijek County Court confirmed the decision of the Zagreb Municipal Court, which found that Zagreb Pride violated personal honor and dignity of Karolina Vidović Krišto, now a former employee of Croatian Radio Television (HRT), by placing her on the annual list of candidates for the most homophobic person of the year in 2013[1]. According to the verdict, we are obliged to pay 41.018,91 HRK (approximately 5414 EUR or 6028 USD) and publish the verdict on our website (www.zagreb-pride.net).This is what happens when countries are ruled with an iron fist by barbaric and oppressive dictatorships like the Catholic Church. In 2013, it helped to successfully pass a federal constitutional amendment banning marriage equality, partly because it threatened to deny children admission into its schools if their parents did not sign the petition to get the amendment on the ballot.Karolina Vidović Krišto is a journalist. At the time of publishing of Zagreb Pride’s 2013 most homophobic person of the year list of candidates, she was employed at HRT. Regardless of the fact that she was an employee of a public institution that has a Constitutional obligation to show equal treatment and due respect to all citizens, regardless of their personal differences, Karolina Vidović Krišto in her TV Show Slika Hrvatske broadcasted Christian J. Pinto’s short documentary The Kinsey Syndrome that deals with the topic of the so-called “Kinsey research”. This documentary suggests that there is a correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia[2]. Karolina Vidović Krišto insisted that the abovementioned broadcast was an example of informative investigative journalism. Yet, not only did she fail to provide an opportunity for someone from the LGBTIQ community to address such claims, she also used the documentary without obtaining copyrights prior to the production of the broadcast, due to which she was suspended by HRT for the violation of ethical conduct and authorship rights. Moreover, Karolina Vidović Krišto was personally involved in organizing the visit of Judith Reisman to Croatia[3]. Judith Reisman openly claims that she “scientifically” proved that homosexuality encourages pedophilia and that LGBTIQ parenthood is inherently wrong. Karolina Vidović Krišto supports such claims, which was obvious from the portrayal of the content on her TV show, as well as her public statements that homosexuality is a “sin” and that she as a Christian cannot support it. She also claimed that 85% of pedophiles are homosexuals.
This is a blatant violation of freedom of speech that has only gone one way in Croatia. Ant-LGBT bigots have been ruled to be free to spew their hatred, but it is now illegal to criticise them for it.
And can someone please name me one place where this is happening the other way round? How exactly are we the intolerant ones again?