UK sure

Yes you did, when you were a part of Great Britain you obeyed British law

Which was imprisonmnet

@Deleted User Sure killed them

Imprisonment*

No we didnt

Stalin did not personally kill or order the deaths of homosexuals.

that was the UK government

who made the laws

Yes which included Ireland

and who were our government and controlled our police force

Yes under the UK government

When were independent I dont think we jailed gays for being gay

@Deleted User Yes he did

@Mr. X Really? Have you any proof? No, you don't. Because there isn't any.

Btw Mr E Ireland only decriminalised same sex activity in 1993

So suck my big dick

Stalin wasn't a saint but he sure as hell wasn't the sociopathic murderer you're making him out to be.

The guy was a poet ffs.

In 1933, the Soviet government under the leadership of Joseph Stalin recriminalised homosexual activity with punishments of up to five years' hard labor. Following Stalin's death, there was a liberalisation of attitudes toward sexual issues in the Soviet Union, but homosexual acts remained illegal

Oh considering how much stalin discriminated against people I think he would've

horseshoe theory n all

@Suleiman brb fact checking again

Horseshoe theory is bullshit

Again

Politics isn’t 1 dimensional

It’s not a single line it’s an XY axis

Yeah, that was purely political and due to low birth rates. That decision was also influenced by the limited scientific knowledge of the day regarding homosexuality. He never personally expressed any malice toward homosexuals and he worked with old Bolsheviks who were openly gay. Also, just because it was "recriminalized" doesn't mean the government didn't turn a blind eye more often than not.

@Deleted User You don’t even really need to defend it because Mr E is a patriot and his own country has historically been less than friendly towards gays

@Suleiman **Jesus fucking christ, you have been on here for 7 hours straight, how are you not even bored yet?**

So he can’t take the moral high ground

@Deleted User got nothing to do

I’ve just been looking at internships all day

For summer

And to make it seem as though he was the sole decision maker and didn't have a council of advisors is patently absurd.

Same-sex sexual activity was decriminalised in 1993. This was the result of a campaign by Senator David Norris and the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform which led to a ruling in 1988 that Irish laws prohibiting male homosexual activities were in contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was founded in the 1970s to fight for the decriminalisation of male homosexuality, its founding members including Senator Norris and future Presidents of Ireland Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson. Prior to 1993, certain laws dating from the nineteenth century rendered male homosexual acts illegal. The relevant legislation was the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, and the 1885 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, both enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom before Irish independence, and having been repealed in England and Wales in 1967, Scotland in 1980 and Northern Ireland in 1982.

In 1983, David Norris took a case to the Supreme Court seeking to challenge the constitutionality of these laws but was unsuccessful. In its Norris v. Attorney General judgement (delivered by a 3–2 majority), the court referred to the "Christian and democratic nature of the Irish State" and argued that criminalisation served public health and the institution of marriage.

In 1988, Norris took a case to the European Court of Human Rights to argue that Irish law was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. The court, in the case of Norris v. Ireland,[18] ruled that the criminalisation of male homosexuality in the Republic violated Article 8 of the Convention, which guarantees the right to privacy in personal affairs. The Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) decriminalised male homosexuality five years later, when the Minister for Justice, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, in the 1992–1994 Fianna Fáil—Labour Coalition Government included decriminalisation with an equal age of consent (an equal age of consent was not required by the ECHR ruling) in a bill to deal with various sexual offences. None of the parties represented in the Oireachtas opposed decriminalisation. Coincidentally, the task of signing the bill decriminalising male homosexual acts fell to the then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, an outspoken defender of gay rights who as a barrister and Senior Counsel had represented Norris in his Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights case.

Don’t wall spam

@Suleiman True

Did they have jail time though?

I didn't wall spam.