As much as murderers, rapists, pedophiles (which homosexuality overlaps), adulterers, and philanderers, have the right to "peacefully" advocate for the acceptance of their afflictions. We are all sinners -- but we do no one a favor by pretending that it is acceptable to advocate sin. The foundations of society are eroded, and eventually that society collapses into a culture that cannot tell right from wrong, nor up from down. And the sinner is kept on the fast lane to hell as society encourages him to go on his way, telling him that he does no wrong.
Good for the Russians.
Do we, as FReepers,...
Yes, poison should not be released into society. Equating the promotion of homosexual 'rights' on the same plane as demonstrating for "unpopular and controversial" political rights is playing the game of moral equivalence. They aren't the same. Sin should be opposed, not celebrated.
So not ony homosexual acts themselves need to be prohibited by the government, but also advocacy for gay political rights or social acceptance for gays?
What other messages or ideas need to be censored in society? And who decides which messages are sufficiently poisonous to call for banning?