Orlauskas explained his passions for the family march with a joke: I said, and you think

“Right now, it has become a strange and inexplicable group where everything is. Trying to shake in different directions. When you listen to the initiators, you don’t even understand who they are against: are they against vaccination? Is it against the Istanbul Convention, against politicians in general? If we look at the organizers, and how they describe 141 members of the Seimas, it seems that they are simply against the government ”, commented R. Urbonaitė.

According to the political scientist, when listening to the organizers, it is not clear if they themselves understand what they are for.

“I admit that, seen from the side, I can no longer say exactly what they are in favor of, what they refer to or what they oppose. Perhaps that is why politicians are distancing themselves from this event. Until now, no one has expressed their support. direct.

I no longer speak of the fact that that march will take place on May 15, when we would still have to try to maintain the quarantine, to protect each other. And there are seven thousand people here, although outdoors, but we understand that it is not so easy to regulate ”, said R. Urbonaitė.

The political scientist did not question the right of people to protest.

“It just came to our knowledge then. But on this particular occasion, I would like to have a clear enough agenda. And here, as to ensure arithmetic and attract attention, we try to attract different opponents, but in the end, it is very difficult to say. who will come out ”, commented R. Urbonaitė.

Church leaders also declared that they would not attend the event.

“The fact that there is that distance also shows that something is not aligned. As I say, well, you can disagree, and with that disagreement everything is fine, but you have to justify it, you have to have a clear agenda, and not just try to unite all those who are against something in a single protest ” he commented. R. Urbonaitė.

Found a joke to explain passions.

Comedian, public figure Artūras Orlauskas does not believe that the controversial assessment of the “Great March for the Defense of the Family” is an event intended to harm someone, and the public discussion about this event was illustrated with a joke.

“I’m going to tell you a joke, and you already think about the situation (…):” Six rabbis met to elect the chief rabbi. There is a meeting in progress. (…) They argue, they talk a lot, eventually they reach a consensus to elect Chaim as the chief rabbi.

The president of the meeting says: “as we have already agreed, everything is fine, we just have to legitimize all this by voting, because protocol is protocol. I invite you all to vote. “Everyone raises their hand and a Sioma says,” Wait, I want to answer before the vote. “

Everyone lowers their hands and he says: “Listen, nothing, that Chaim is a pedophile and rapes his sister’s youngest daughter?” Everyone starts to look nervous. Suddenly, Jieška says: “Wait, so Chaim has no sister. What other younger daughter? ”. And Sioma says: “Look, I said, and you think,” Orlauskas said.

Similarly, understand why this event is being criticized.

“It just came to our knowledge then. I said, and you think. The shadow still remained. Here all this principle of Tapinas, Malinauskiukas, is the same” I will enlighten at all costs and the shadow will remain. “And to whom is this done ? (…)

The march will be carried out unequivocally. You cannot imagine how many people rebelled. More than three thousand cars, just from Samogitia. And each car can drive two homes. More than three hundred motorcyclists have already been registered, about a column of forty old cars, about forty campers, heavy vehicles, a column of jeeps, – said A. Orlauskas.

In his opinion, the confrontation that is now observed is not on his part.

“It just came to our knowledge then. The family march is a defense march. This is for a traditional family (that is, a man, a woman, a child), for a proper education for children guaranteed by the Constitution, for adequate medical care, for dignified health, for normal families to give birth, for mothers to have adequate benefits to raise children, (…) We are in favor of these normal things.

We are in favor of maintaining this, that is why we do not want the Companies Law to be approved so that the family can be convened by people who are not families according to the Constitution and cannot have children according to the laws of nature. It means the next step: the application of the Šakalienė Law will be adopted and children will be removed from traditional families and transferred to “families”, said A. Orlauskas.

Organizer: Orlauskas said what every second Lithuanian thinks

The March for the Defense of the Family, which will take place on May 15 in Vingis Park, Vilnius, is already awakening passions in the public space. Its organizers are criticized for hate speech, planned meetings during a pandemic or homophobic attitudes. What are the organizers of the family defense march aiming at, what is it aimed at and why has the event aroused so much passion in public space?

Arvydas Daunys, the initiator of the family movement, assured that the issue is obvious to people interested in these issues.

“Parents can no longer choose how to raise their children. Kindergartens teach worrying things. I would not like to delve into all these things now, there had been information in the media about all the love of the prince and the prince. isolated cases ”, stated A. Daunys on the radio news program“ Question of the day ”.

When asked what this Family Defense March is fighting against, A. Daunys began to name the most important issues.

“Istanbul Convention, Law of Associations. This is a prelude to the gay marriage institute. The chairman of the Human Rights Committee, Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, also spoke publicly about this. They keep going until they start to stop, they don’t stop by themselves, we see it and we know it, “he explained.

A. Daunys assured that Lithuania has its own traditions and based on them, according to him, laws should be drawn up.

“Society is changing naturally, but not through laws imposed by force or coercion,” he said.

In the social space, the comments of the comedian Artūras Orlauskas about the planning of this rally received a lot of attention, he was even accused of using hate speech. He promised to “end the oil in the Seimas” and spoke about the possible siege of parliament if his demands and positions are not listened to.

A. Daunys claimed that A. Orlauskas’s statements were only emotions. He explained that it was only words that were spoken in the minds of many.

“It just came to our attention then. (…) Let’s be right, he said what every second Lithuanian thinks. Because the members of the Seimas spit on us twice a day, “he said.

The initiator of the family movement stated that A. Orlauskas is simply “more open”, and others are simply silent.

The event organizers expect about 7,000 people to participate in the rally. In early April, the Vilnius City Municipality issued a permit for such a protest.

The listener of the radio news program “Question of the day” explained that it is necessary to think carefully if pragmatism and the desire to take power are behind the whole event.

Lauryna Vireliūnaitė, a journalist for the news portal 15min.lt, stated on the show that it is more of an event of hatred and quarantine fatigue.

Political scientist: the majority of society does not support such a radical abandonment of Western values

Andrius Švarplys, a political scientist at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), stated on the radio news program “Question of the Day” that Lithuanians are experiencing a stock appreciation.

“First of all, I think we should pay attention to the reasons why this march has taken place, it is certainly not the only one, it is not the first movement around this political issue. As I understand it, the main reason for this is the need to evaluate similar movements, or this one. It is a fact that Lithuanians are living and directly facing the revaluation of values ​​”, explained the interlocutor of the show.

The political scientist stressed that the majority of the public does not support such a rapid change in values.

“To put it bluntly, most of our society does not support such a radical transformation, rapid and fueled by Western values, the transformation of the family institution. This is a social fact that we have to read with, whether we like the march or not, but we have to realize it, ”said A. Švarplys.

He said no one was interested in “who is sleeping with whom.”

“Lithuanian society does not have and does not have problems with tolerance in the private space. All the disagreement is for changing the constitutional concepts, it is not done in a democratic way, but in an elitist way,” he explained.

The VMU political scientist was surprised that the civic movement often receives a lot of media or political criticism.

“You are right, the parliamentary election process itself is democratic, but the situation is that after winning a small percentage of the votes, it is completely outnumbered by those who do not support it. If the cabinet decision is lowered from above. At least it will allow people to organize and express their will, like in a referendum, ”he said.

He stressed that the referendum would likely show that the majority does not support such proposals.

“The organizers of the march have serious problems with the reputation of the moral leader. But I would not treat that as the main thing in this march. But the main thing in it is the majority of Lithuanian society, which does not support a radical remodeling of the concept of constitutional family. And a large part of the people will go for other lords, others will go to defend their constitutional order, ”said A. Švarplys on the radio news program“ Question of the Day ”.

There is also talk of a concert hall

Delphi He has already written that the Family Movement writes on its website that the march is being organized due to “aggressive sexist propaganda carried out with methods of ideological warfare and the laws being drafted by the ruling majority, which are contrary to the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania. Adopted by referendum “.

The event organizers themselves announced on April 8 that permission to organize this protest had been obtained.

The automobile column is promised to move from Klaipeda to Vilnius, with participants from other regions joining along the way, all gathering for “the myth of all Lithuanian unity and protest in Vingis Park.”

The organizers of the march announced that after the participation of the participants from all the districts, “in the section of the march from Kaunas to Vilnius it is possible to recharge the road, so we ask for seriousness and concentration. Let’s be friendly with the other participants and tolerant with the officials, since they are part of our nation. We believe that the number of cars in this section could reach 700-2000 (passenger cars). “

The organizers also mention in the protest rules about the “protest action concert hall”.

Delphi recalls that the government eased quarantine conditions last week. As of this Monday, events with a maximum of 150 spectators will be allowed in accordance with the established requirements.

Events can be held indoors when no more than 30 percent full. all seats, ensuring the electronic distribution of tickets and / or the registration of spectators to wear masks for spectators over 6 years of age, as well as other conditions established by the Emergency Operations Manual at the state level.