Giorgos Kapoutzidis: “When you’re gay, they consider you lower than a murderer”

Giorgos Kapoutzidis was a guest of the show “Studio 4” one day before the passing of the bill on the marriage of same-sex couples and the right to have children.

As soon as you are gay you are considered lower than a murderer

“Whatever you do in your life, the cure for cancer you discover, the moment you are gay you are considered lower than a murderer, a rapist. Do you understand what our starting point was, what thought we have to root out?’

Speaking about the positions in the Parliament, he characterized as “fortunate” the fact that the rapporteur of the bill is Mr. Skertsos. Mr. Skertsos pointed out in his speech: “It is not acceptable, democratically, for our fellow human beings, with a same-sex sexual orientation, to have fewer individual, political or social rights than the majority” and added that it is inhumane to be punished and sentenced to a life in the dark and on the fringes, those citizens who are different from the majority and harm no one either with their lives or their preferences.

The hope we had was that the KKE would take a different stance

“Bad comments were always there and the reason some people tried, we talked and you told us that so-and-so is tired, is because we knew that there are these bad things that will not stop from tomorrow, we knew about this hatred.

We were explaining it and they didn’t understand it. We are talking about the Parliament, about the temple of democracy, impermissible things have been said there but we knew it. Everything was expected. The hope we had was that the KKE would take a different stance. Like George, he disappointed me. The LGBTI community must be removed from the party”, said Giorgos Kapoutzidis, among others.

Will the lives of some families change when a “yes” is given by the state?

However, the elimination of hatred is not self-evident. “To understand where we are still, how deep-rooted is the hatred and confused the conscience of some people, and the discrimination is so strict, at this moment in the Greek State and in many countries of the world if a murderer wants to have a child with a merchant drugs, there is no problem, no law prevents them, no Holy Synod will meet to make a decision. No one will stop them,” said the actor characteristically.

And he continued: “When a same-sex couple wants to have a child, it’s done. That shows how far down they have us.”