Posted on 08/12/2013 9:59:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said he opposed boycotting the Sochi Olympic Games despite new Russian anti-gay laws, instead urging nations to wave rainbow flags during the opening ceremonies to show support for gay rights.
“That'd be pretty embarrassing for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” Schumer said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” “Let our athletes participate but still make a stand.”
In June, Putin signed a law banning gay “propaganda” and imposing fines on those holding gay pride rallies. The law has generated an international backlash ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called on the U.S. to boycott the games altogether in response to Russia's failure to return Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who leaked details of top-secret National Security Agency surveillance programs.
President Obama on Friday rejected the idea of a boycott.
“I do not think it's appropriate to boycott the Olympics. We've got a bunch of Americans out there who are training hard, who are doing everything they can to succeed,” Obama said at a White House press conference.
Obama said he was “offended” by the Russian laws, but he expressed hopes that gay athletes succeeding at the games could change attitudes....
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I have a great idea Chuck U. Schumer.....Why don’t you attend the Olympics and personally wave a rainbow flag in Putin’s face?
Putin should have the staff at the Olympics pass out complimentary rainbow flag toilet paper.
Schmuckie sounds like he’s been spending a lot of time over at Bahney Fwank’s house.
They (the homosexual agenda lobby) raise dollars for the democrats - lots and lots of dollars. That’s all it is.
Maybe veterans and conservatives/tea partiers should try doing that over on this side. Of course, we’d probably be forgotten the day after the election.
Come on, chuckie...come on out.
IOC Rule 51: no display of flags that can be construed as making a political statement.
Sometimes I think I am ready to go home.
I respect Putin 100 times more than Obama .
Schumer needs to get his fudge packed.
Putin may call upon the grandchildren of Vasily Zaytsev to help enforce the law.
I remember the huge protests of the Beijing Olympics and the baby murdering commies. Oh wait that never happened...
Schumer should try to learn to show a little respect, class, decency, and dignity instead of acting like trash.
Sorry SOB can put a sock in it.
Hillary only had 900 FBI files.
Obama's NSA has files on 300,000,000 Americans.
Maybe God will do a little mini-flood at the Olympics then.
He just said He wouldn’t do another world-wide flood.
Isn’t it ironic though that we have to the point in our nation that we respect the RUSSIAN president more than the American president? I never thought I would see the day!
If God is considering a mini flood he should start in Washington D.C.
No—it isn’t “all it is”. They want the boys. Homosexuality is always all about the boys since the Ancient Greeks. They need to be able to warp the “thinking’ of little boys—like they do here: http://www.examiner.com/article/afghan-pedophilia-a-way-of-life-say-u-s-soldiers-and-journalists
Why do you think they went after the Boy Scouts and have forced the Vice of Sodomy to be “Virtue” now in the Military-—and make little kids (Jerry Brown) take “Pride” in anal sex and pederasts like Harvey Milk. It is indoctrination and will affect “Worldview” and warp their sexual identity formation like the little boys in Afghanistan who dream of having “Harems of Boys” when they grow up. It is a learned behavior—and they have to form the worldview of children when they are young.
It has always existed-—the occult Ba’al Worship-—which is what it is...and the elites controlling the world are all sodomites.
it is all about access to the boys (like the Franklin Cover-Up)-—and they are conditioning our children to think Sodomy is Good. Look at Glee and now with “homosexual” marriage—they can force textbooks to really normalize the dehumanizing, vile behavior-—for the children and for population control.
Personally. I wouldn’t care if they canceled the Olympics. They’ve become nothing but a joke and a waste of money. I saw a segment on FOX this morning where they are going to cancel wrestling and a bunch of nuts are wanting to add “pole dancing”. Why not just go straight to sexting and lap dancing?
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