At the end of June, a widely circulated video showed a floral display, installed for Pride Month in Beirut, being vandalised. The video was shot by the perpetrators themselves, a group who call themselves the “Soldiers of God”. This group says they are fighting against civil marriage and the “abuses” committed by the LGBT community in Lebanon.
On June 24, a group of men filmed themselves in front of a rainbow-coloured flower arrangement in the predominately Christian neighbourhood of Achrafieh, Beriut, on Sassine Street. They were reciting verses from the Old Testament.
“[They are] wolves in sheep’s clothing. They are kidnapping our children. [Homosexuality] is a sin fatal to the body and soul,” one of them rages.
