Posted on 06/11/2013 5:16:43 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
OSCOW — Russian lawmakers prepared Tuesday to pass a harsh law introducing stiff fines and jail terms for people who promote homosexual "propaganda" to minors, a measure critics fear will be used to justify the repression of gays amid rising homophobia in the country.
The Duma lower house was expected to give final approval to the bill banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to minors by Russians and foreigners as well as media organisations.
The controversial bill would make it an offence to say that gay relationships are equal to heterosexual ones.
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If individuals use media or Internet for such "propaganda" they can be fined up to 100,000 rubles ($3,000), while organisations can be fined up to one million rubles and can be closed down for up to 90 days.
The bill also targets foreigners, apparently because international gay rights activists such as Britain's Peter Tatchell have regularly travelled to Russia to support gay pride events.
It says that foreigners who use media or the Internet for propaganda can be fined up to 100,000 rubles and can also be held in police cells for up to 15 days and be deported.
Rights activists and Western governments have repeatedly criticised the bill.
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In France they just passed a national homosexual marriage law, thus all the protests. I wouldn't say we're behind the times, but we're catching up to Europe quickly.
I’d want a society where these types of social mandates come from good people instead of government policy. Which kinda makes me depressed, as I don’t trust younger voters to side on the right side of biological reality/sanity/etc when it comes to issues that the homosexualists are pushing on us.
Still, I refuse to stop fighting. There are still a lot of good, decent people in this country.
Ah, yes, Russia is about to pass a “Don’t Say Gay” bill!
http://thinkprogress.org/tag/dont-say-gay/
Good for Russia!!!!
PHOOEY to “human rightsers” in our own country who have turned the entire month of June into “gay month”!!!! PHOOEY to urban officials who allow garish and obscene “gay pride” parades, and that allow “gays” to take over large parts of the city for “gay pride week”!!!!
These are the same “human rightsers” and urban officials who bow and scrape to islam, and especially to jihad-enabling mosques! They practically INVITED terrorists to perpetrate such atrocities as the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing! PHOOEY again!!!!
.....and they have a 14% flat tax.
We used to have one right here in the Land Of The Free Stuff.
Putin is no great paragon of moral virtue. As a former KGB guy; however, I’m sure he’s familiar with the corrosive effect homosexuality and sexual license have on a society. That’s why the Soviet intelligence services did everything they could to undermine traditional values and promote immorality in the west.
If I was a homosexual, drug user, criminal or other deviant I would start thinking about becoming a Republican.
When a totalitarian regime takes over, those are the first people sent off to camps or killed.
And based on the direction of this country, it may not be that long before the useful idiots from the left are no longer needed.
I would think if he wanted to protect Russian society he might do something about alcoholism, but that would be unpopular.
When you find one, would you let us know?
You can easily applaud individual issues and stances that are praiseworthy. Nigeria, which has some of the worst human rights violations in Africa, is on the verge of passing strict anti-homo propaganda legislation, and for that, they are to be heartily commended.
Again, sometimes you can judge a policy by the company it keeps.
So you don’t mind the Government monitoring everyone in what they do in the privacy of their bedroom??
What does that have to do with anything mentioned in the article?
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