Posted on 02/15/2020 3:11:47 PM PST by Ennis85
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin.
He made clear he would not allow the traditional notion of mother and father to be subverted by what he called “parent number 1” and “parent number 2”.
“As far as ‘parent number 1’ and ‘parent number 2’ goes, I’ve already spoken publicly about this and I’ll repeat it again: as long as I’m president this will not happen. There will be dad and mum,” Putin said.
During his two decades in power, Putin has closely aligned himself with the Orthodox Church and sought to distance Russia from liberal Western values, including attitudes toward homosexuality and gender fluidity.
He made the comments as he met a state commission to discuss changes to Russia’s constitution.
The commission was set up last month after Putin announced sweeping changes to Russia’s political system that are widely seen as being designed to help him extend his grip on power after his scheduled departure from office in 2024.
Other proposals have since been put forward and Putin was asked to comment on a proposal to add a line in the constitution defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
“We need only to think in what phrases and where to do this,” he replied.
In separate comments during the meeting, Putin said he backed an idea to make it unconstitutional for Russia to give away any part of its territory, a move likely to irritate Japan and Ukraine that have land disputes with Moscow.
Russia annexed the peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and has been in a decades-long dispute with Tokyo over ownership of a chain of islands in the Pacific that Moscow seized from Japan at the end of
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Good!
Can’t help but having some grudging respect for ol’ Vlady.
He may be an SOB. but he’s an SOB for Mother Russia.
I profoundly hope that DJT manages to come to some lasting accommodation with the Russkies in his second term. I’d sooner deal with them than the Chicoms, who I see as a byword for treachery.
Proof there is some good in everyone.
Government, U.S., Russian, or any other, should have no say in what a marriage is, taxes be damned.
Marriage is a state’s issue for the people of each state to deal with. Marriage is not constitutionally a federal issue, not should it be in any country’s government.
Letting sodomites “marry” might be harmless, but letting them.adopt children is insane.
Good reason to “collude.”
Marriage is a universal issue.
Society has long disagreed with the position you are espousing.
I wish Putin would say that if the USA puts men in women’s Olympic events, so will we.
Excellent. Let them play house behind closed doors.
Have we put men in women’s events??. If men are in women’s events then the Olympics are over. It will garner viewership like the Oscars. Less and less.
Good for Putin. There is no such thing as gay marriage!
Putin’s 2016 Christmas message. I wish our politicians had this Christian worldview.
The democrats LOVED the Soviet Union. Russia was great in their eyes. Since they dumped communism the democrats HATE Russia.
See what’s going on? One would have to be blind not to.
Marriage is also a private issue that should be governed by LOCAL (individual and or state government), NOT NATIONAL government.
Society disagrees with marriage being a state’s issue?
I don’t think so.
No. Marriage is as public as it gets.
We must not confuse what goes on in a household with what comprises a household.
Like the time I was at a Trump rally in Tampa during the height of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, some protesters thought they were slick by blasting Back in the USSR over a boom box. I politely asked one of them if they were aware that at the time the Beatles wrote that, whoever put them up to that foolishness not only didn’t have a problem with the Russians meddling in our affairs but actually encouraged it. Nothing but blank stares.
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