Posted on 08/27/2019 8:40:00 AM PDT by rintintin
A gay couple in Russia was forced to flee the country after being accused of breaking the country's controversial "gay propaganda law" for telling their two children they are married. Under the law, which was passed in 2013, teaching minors about LGBTQ issues is considered illegal.
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I never, ever, ever thought that there would be a single point on which Russia was more appealing than America. But they’ve proved me wrong.
“My niece is a Russian Orthodox nun in Vladivostok and has never given any indication that Russians are void a belief system. Quite the contrary actually.”
I hope Judy in Canada is just underinformed and not intentionally spreading neocon anti-Russian deceptions and disinformation
Yup - just underinformed. I don’t pay much attention to Russia, but I did know that churches were coming back and there was less prosecution. I wasn’t aware to what extent the government was behind it - although I suspect they’d have to be.
Not trying to spread anything neocon.....no worries.
“I find it interesting that an atheist country finds reason to fight homosexuality. I’d like to know their reasoning.”
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Russia is an atheist country?
I would believe Hillary is a devout Catholic.
They’re not atheist
The Orthodox Church is very strong there. Putin is all in
They’re lucky they’re not ice farming in Siberia.
Russia seems to stand in the way of many western globalist, secularist, progressive, social-engineering plans.
Gay couple equals adoption.
Perversion
That IMO is as bad as our extreme. Not the business of the government (including our public schools).
A formerly atheist country got religion.
A formerly religious country got atheism.
They are literally North Pole(s) apart...
Poor kids. Already no parents and then adopted into this.
You might want to sit down as what I have to say may shock you. You are behind the times FRiend. It’s now the 21st century, the year being 2019. Russia is a Christian nation and the United States is sliding into moral perversion and atheism.
Breaking ice in the cold sun
They fought the law and the law won
They fought the law and the law won
Degeneracy is degeneracy whether you claim a religion or not.
What happened to death by stoning...
Careful. In FR, there are a bunch of bigoted Russophobia lunatics, they don’t mind to be antichrist.
BI is a Leftwing rag
I would encourage you to read up on Yuri Bezmenov, maybe even listen to some of his lectures on YouTube. He was a KGB defector and spoke openly about the efforts of Soviet intelligence to corrupt and destabilize the west. He likens the efforts to martial arts where you use an opponent's weakness(es) to your advantage. He spoke how the Soviets would identify pathologies in western society (i.e. drug use, homosexuality, friction between the races) and then pour funding and propaganda efforts into normalizing those pathologies with the goal of destabilizing individual communities and nations.
Putin's "embrace" of Orthodoxy is likely a facade, but as a former KGB operative, he is undoubtedly aware of how corrosive and disruptive widespread immorality can be to a country, precisely because he was part of a machine that encouraged it in the west for decades.
One interesting aside though: even when the USSR *did* have atheism established as a matter of public policy, they still established and promoted a culture of family values, sexual, and personal morality that could easily be confused with that in "red state" USA.
In fact, it seems that the Communists only promoted the type of "corrupting values" that we today identify with the far-left in foreign, so called "opposing" countries. They understood the corrosiveness of these types of "values". I actually never understood this at all until I lived in Russia, and heard someone use "Communist" as a synonym for a "goody two-shoes" sort. This confused the hell out of me, and I had to start researching it.
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