Stupid thuggery. More bad news from Russia.
Same response to you:
It's all about force and the threat of physical violence anyway. Just that the gays / lesbians / homosexuals use the legal system (power of the state) to enforce the laws once they get their way.
Talk to a few gays/lesbians some time without letting on to what you may think of their lifestyle and see how they think. What they want and how they expect to get it.
Basically it comes down to passing laws and after that they expect the law (the police enforcement power of the state) to do their enforcement work for them.