Belarus has slammed the UK embassy in Minsk for flying a rainbow flag on the International Day Against Homophobia, calling LGBT relationships "fake".
In a lengthy statement, the Interior Ministry said the UK was challenging the country's "traditional values".
"The LGBT community, and all this fight for 'their rights', and the very day of the community are just a fake!"
Relationships between men and women were the "only way of reproduction", it added. "No matter which way you look at it but a same-sex relationship is a fake. And the essence of the fake is always the same - the erosion of the truth."
Oh dear Belarus, lashing out at the LGBT community by demeaning their relationships as "fake". If reproduction is the category for judging what is a relationship and what is not, then someone better tell all those opposite sex couples who are infertile that their relationship is also "fake", as well as post-menopausal women who are in a relationship with a man. It is also entirely possible for trans couples to have children, so is their relationship "fake"?
Are LGBT relationships "fake"? What has prompted Belarus to say something about the issue now, considering the British Embassy in Belarus has flown the rainbow flag in previous years? Is hanging certain flags from an Embassy a form of interference in the affairs of the host country?
