About the gay parade. The problem is not the gay parade. In all reality, I’m ashamed of what happened last year. To think up something like this, how low must a man stoop?
— Janis Birks, the newly-elected mayor of Riga, Latvia’s capital, in an interview with the Latvian-language portal vdiena.lv.
The mayor addresses the events of last June when a mob gathered outside the Hotel Latvija where gay and lesbian activists gathered for a conference. Here’s the video taken by a Latvian-American journalist Juris Kaza last year.
Another video taken when the Riga city government was considering a request for gay parade. The request was later denied, which is why the activists were meeting at the Hotel Latvija. The woman speaking announces the government’s decision to the cheerful crowd, which then proceeds to recite the Lord’s Prayer. Which is then followed by the national anthem. Could they be Republicans? 