Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye launched a virulent anti-gay tirade on Friday, saying same-sex couples should be publicly stoned.
He also lashed out at Western countries that press other nations to allow gay rights or risk losing aid.
Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009 with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts.
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Opposition to LGBTQ rights in modern Russia started under Stalin who was a supporter of the League of Militant Atheists and an avowed enemy to all religions. Soviet leaders after Stalin continued and in some cases intensified his anti-LGBTQ policies. Modern Russia simply inherited hostility for LGBTQ from pro-atheist USSR.
It’s worth noting the Bolsheviks decriminalized homosexuality prior to Stalin taking power. Point is neither a religious nor atheist society will necessarily be better for LGBTQ rights. It depends on what flavor of religion or atheism is dominating society.
You can very clearly see a trend where the more pro-LGBT countries are the less religious.
I haven’t seen any studies, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right. However, less religious is not the same as atheist or anti-religion.
There are plenty of folks that identify as LGBTQ as well as their allies that believe in God and may even participate or quasi-participate in organized religion. They will present arguments like, “God made them this way so who am I to hate them?” or, “We are all God’s children,” or what have you.
Anyways, an atheistic society doesn’t guarantee an LGBTQ-friendly society.
We can also see lack of LGBTQ protections in Mainland China which is overwhelmingly atheist.
FYI, if you’re reading this in dark mode, that graph will look visually misleading. The white is changed to a shade of grey, you have to actually go to Wikipedia or disable dark mode…