Russia Says It Will Arrest Openly Gay Tourists

T + E ^ | 10 July 2013 | Amanda Lee

[Albion Wilde]

I agree with everything you just posted. I just don't yet believe that Putin's motivation is necessarily morality, as implied in your earlier post. I'm going to wait and see. Perhaps I'm equating morality with the Ten Commandments and not merely with common sense, as you have laid out, and with which I agree completely.

Meantime, here's something to love:

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for your kind reply.

I just don't yet believe that Putin's motivation is necessarily morality, as implied in your earlier post.

Nope, I did not imply anything about Putin. If you check the post (#55) again, it begins: "Putin is reflecting the values of the people." My meaning was that Putin was reflecting the opinion of the vast majority of Russians. Even Putin wants to be loved. I have no idea about Putin's personal feelings about sodomites, but it wouldn't surprise me if he is repulsed by them, just like most normal people.

FRegards,
LH

[Albion Wilde]

Seen and — once again — agreed with.

[The_Reader_David]

Certainly not in a Russian context. So far as I can tell, Russian law under the Tsars only ever criminalized male-on-male anal intercourse, paralleling in that regard Roman law after Justinian, though without prescribing capital punishment, and only for a relatively brief period.

This is related to the fact that in Orthodox canon law, only male-on-male anal intercourse is penanced as a “sin unto death”: those sins punishable by capital punishment under the Old Covenant law have a canonical penance of excommunication with communion of the Holy Mysteries on the deathbed only. Other homoerotic acts are sinful, but the canonical penance is lighter. (Under the principle of economia, priests rarely impose the ancient canonical penances, but they do serve as a guide to the seriousness the Orthodox Church traditionally assigned to various sins.)

[bayouranger]

Anytime.

Check http://1389blog.com/ when you can.

Out.

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The first two pictures are of riot police breaking up protests in Moscow. I'm not sure of the exact dates or circumstances, but you can find photos and stories about anti-Putin protests being violently broken up in May 2012 and on other occasions.

The other photo is of the Moscow apartment bombings that many assume to have been a government action that went terribly wrong. I tried to get photos of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya and the beatings of other journalists, but didn't find pictures that could clearly and easily convey what happened in a single image.

For all the talk about America being a tyranny now or headed down that road, the praise of Putin makes me wonder if some people's objection may not be that the tyranny isn't tough enough or effective enough or directed at the right people. I wouldn't want an actual (former) KGB man running the US.

[ilovesarah2012]

I still say he would be better than Obama. But I don’t think you have to worry that Putin will take Obama’s place. I think he is happy where he is. And there are examples of the U.S. not being much better. Waco, Ruby Ridge, Kent State, many suspicious deaths related to Clinton and Obama. We are hardly a beacon of all that is good to the world.

[Albion Wilde]

Thank you for the explanations. America truly is alone, and fading fast. Help us, Father!

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