Posted on 07/06/2024 3:11:17 PM PDT by JonPreston
Just over three decades after Russia decriminalised homosexuality in 1993, three people have been arrested and charged under the country’s harsh new anti-LGBT laws and could face ten years in prison for membership of an “extremist organisation”.
The arrests are a clear indication of how Russia has come full circle on its persecution of sexual minorities under Vladimir Putin.
On March 21, the district court of Orenburg city in south-western Russia ordered the arrest of nightclub owner Vyacheslav Khasanov. The nightclub, which is called Pose, has never explicitly identified as a gay club – styling itself as a “parody theatre bar”, it hosted parties with drag queen artists and go-go dancers as entertainment.
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"You better not. You'll likely wind up in jail with this new law."
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I see no problem with repressing evil.
This is your “argument style”? That’s pretty weak. Does it really work with anyone with the IQ above a Christmas lightbulb wattage?
There’s no difference.
Seems absolutely NO different from pre 1968 America.
In a sane, virtuous society, that thing in the picture wouldn’t get within ten miles of a child.
I do not think Russia is wrong. The Bible clearly tells us about what is wrong with man and man. That is all I need.
In 1968 the American bloodstream was forced open and poison was injected into our culture, forever changing US in the most negative of ways.
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