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- Currently, Government is getting ready to forward the anti-discrimination bill to Parliament which was withdrawn from it a year ago. The bill is heavily criticized by certain representatives of church, as well as by particular political forces. 
CHISINAU -- Moldova's north-central city of Balti is emerging as a key hotspot in the latest controversy threatening to split the impoverished country in two.
Today, prior to the parliament sitting, members of the Young Guard, a youth group within the Party of Socialists, were handing in copies of the Bible to Members of Parliament with the appeal “We demand protection of Christian values”, conveys eNews.md.
After the City Council of Balti had adopted the decision “On proclaiming Balti a zone for support of the Moldovan Orthodox Church and prohibition of the aggressive propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientations”, almost each day Moldova’s mass media write, talk and show reports on how this news was received by the public. Sometimes feedback from members of the LGBT community appears in newspapers and TV programs. Thus, the Balti-based newspaper “SP” published opinion of a former city councilor’s son among others. We post it below.
In a post-communist country, where some people have a quite conservative viewpoint it is quite difficult to “come out of the closet.” The small Eastern European Republic of Moldova is presently looking forward to joining the European Union one day. The acquis communautaire has yet to be implemented, but Moldova backs off from implementing the first requirement of the criteria which refers to ensuring “the stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights including respect for and protection of minorities.”
This year, the 11th festival “Rainbow over the Dniester” takes place in Chisinau between 10 and 13 May under the motto “Take action! United for equality!” The organizers seek achievement of the following: equal rights for homosexual and transgender people, their integration in the society so they, like other social groups, were protected by the state. 
Two years after a gay man had been attacked and robbed court decided that the attacker must be strictly punished. The convicted Eduard Mitrofanov was bound to pay the victim moral and material damages in the amount of 10 thousand lei, as well as he was sentenced to five years in prison. 
The City Council of Moldova’s city of Balti has declared it territory “a zone of particular support of Moldovan Orthodox Church” which stipulates, among others, complete prohibition of the “imposed by Moldova’s central authority aggressive propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation”. 
Today, the Communist Party is setting the fire that will be hard to extinguish. In the toughest economic and socio-political conditions, hatred against any social group flashes instantly. And those who governed eight years cannot but know this. If they know this and, being members of parliament or a city council, continue their dark deeds with the knowledge of act, then it is a crime that law-enforcement bodies of Moldova must pay attention to. 
I have reiterated on numerous occasions, like other forms of discrimination and intolerance, such as racism, xenophobia, islamophobia or anti-Semitism, homophobia is inacceptable in a democratic state, the one of law, where human dignity, rights and freedoms represent supreme values and are guaranteed.
