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Posted on 07/11/2013 1:50:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russian president Vladimir Putin has passed a draconian law that calls for the arrest of anyone who is openly gay or supportive of gay rights.
Thinking of taking a vacation to Europe this summer? If a trip to iconic city of Moscow or the edgier St. Petersburg is on your bucket list, an anti-gay law recently passed in Russia may have you thinking again. It is now outlawed to be ‘out and proud.’
In a throwback to the country’s authoritarian ruling, Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial law that punishes people for “homosexual propaganda.” The law fines people—including tourists—up to 200,000 rubles ($6,240 CDN) for “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations.”
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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
Seen and — once again — agreed with.
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.)
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.
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.
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