I'm already tired of the agenda-pushing and time I have to put toward this issue, and the distortion regarding the Russian position doesn't help:
"Russian lawmakers OK antigay bill, 436-0; Putin expected to sign; protesters attacked, detained" by Nataliya Vasilyeva and Mansur Mirovalev | Associated Press, June 12, 2013
MOSCOW — A bill that stigmatizes gay people and bans giving children any information about homosexuality won overwhelming approval Tuesday in Russia’s lower house of Parliament.
Okay, it's the ban on discussing it with children that I want to focus on. It means they don't want the stuff being shoved down their throat and encouraged by perverted sex-ed teachers in the middle schools like it is back here in the Zionist-controlled United States. I happen to agree with that position. We don't need kids being even more confused by telling them they should experiment.
Hours before the State Duma passed the Kremlin-backed law in a 436-0 vote with one abstention, more than two dozen protesters were attacked by hundreds of antigay activists and then detained by police.
The bill banning the ‘‘propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations’’ still needs to be passed by the appointed upper house and signed into law by President Vladimir Putin, but neither step is in doubt.
The measure is part of an effort to promote traditional Russian values instead of Western liberalism, which the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church see as corrupting Russian youth and contributing to the protests against Putin’s rule.
A widespread hostility to homosexuality is shared by much of Russia’s political and religious elite. Lawmakers have accused gays of decreasing Russia’s already low birth rates and said they should be barred from government jobs, undergo forced medical treatment, or be exiled.
The State Duma passed another bill on Tuesday that makes offending religious feelings a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. The legislation, which passed 308-2, was introduced last year after three members of the Pussy Riot punk group were convicted of ‘‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred’’ for an impromptu anti-Putin protest inside Moscow’s main cathedral and given two-year sentences.
Related: Pussy Riot Propaganda
Nor is the gay movement as good as it seems.
Both bills drew condemnation from Amnesty International. ‘‘They represent a sorry attempt by the government to bolster its popularity by pandering to the most reactionary elements of Russian society — at the expense of fundamental rights and the expression of individual identities,’’ John Dalhuisen, the human rights group’s Europe and Central Asia program director, said in a statement.
We get that a lot, too, in the form of terrorist Muslims waved in our faces.
Before the antigay vote, rights activists attempted to hold a ‘‘kissing rally’’ outside the State Duma, but they were attacked by hundreds of Orthodox Christian activists and members of pro-Kremlin youth groups.
I'll tell you this: I'm always for kissing over wars.
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"Gay rights activists, opponents clash
MOSCOW — Gay rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart. Russian police said they arrested at least 30 gay rights campaigners and Christian Orthodox vigilantes in Moscow. The campaigners tried to unfurl banners denouncing Kremlin-backed antigay legislation in front of Russia’s lower house of Parliament, but they were attacked by vigilantes carrying religious icons (AP)."
