Children's Initiative Group of Chokhosani Society of Georgian Patriarchate releases statement on Tbilisi Pride

The Children's Initiative Group of the Chokhosani Society of the Georgian Patriarchate has released a statement regarding the Tbilisi Pride.

The statement calls on children to go to Rustaveli Avenue on July 5, at 17:00, to protect the rights of children.

"On July 5, we, children, will assemble on Rustaveli Avenue!

After it became known that an almost week-long LGBT event was planned in Tbilisi and that on July 5 they are going to hold a march on Rustaveli, our parents, siblings, relatives, friends and we have lost our spiritual peace.

Questions are constantly asked: Does not morality mean anything? Does not people's opinion matter? We not interfere in their private life, but why do they impose their perverted relationships on us?!

We have these questions, but there are not answers”, reads the statement.

According to the organization, they researched and studied certain materials and found that:

“The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Code of the Rights of the Child prohibit public discussions and speeches on any sexual topic that violates the right to raise children in a peaceful environment.

Any expression of opinion and assembly should be restricted in case it violates the rights and moral norms of other people.

The march scheduled by Tbilisi Pride for July 5 grossly violates the common morality, as well as the best interests of children. In addition, the more aggressively they insult our parents, who raise us according to religious, national and moral rules, and insist on holding a Pride, the more they abuse us.

As we have said, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Code of the Rights of the Child prohibit acts that are detrimental to the child, including the propaganda of perversion. That is why we filed an application with court and categorically demanded that our rights be protected. Unfortunately, the court has not yet made a decision, they deceive us every day and violate the law. The court does not protect us, children, as they are captives of the LGBT Pride.

We appeal to the Government of Georgia, President, Ministries of Health, Education and Interior, Public Defender, NGOs, United Nations Children's Fund, EU Committee on the Rights of the Child, Ambassadors of all States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to protect the best interests of children, uphold the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Code of the Rights of the Child, and timely stop harmful and dangerous actions against us by the organizers, participants and supporters of the LGBT Pride’, reads the statement.