Some kind of parliamentary procedure went into it, no? Again that’s the Rooskies’ baby to watch. He’s one of the few world leaders who actually has something like a sane treatment of the homo issue. Don’t flaunt in public, we don’t want you recruiting, but we won’t burrow into your bedrooms if you insist on doing that amongst yourselves. Most others are either lying flat for this “gay marriage” stuff or else overreacting with things like threatening to send someone who suspects buggery and doesn’t rat on it to prison.
Plenty of “parliamentary procedure” has gone into tearing apart the US Constitution as well, not just judicial activism. Does not make it the rule of law.
And in light of the “rule of man” matter in Russia, the issue with homosexuals looks also like pandering to Christians in order for Putin to get what he wants.
Incidentally, God is all about the rule of law. That’s why the first five books of the Bible are called “the law”, a term used by Jesus Himself.