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Olympics-Gay rights protesters detained in Russia as Games start
http://sports.yahoo.com/ ^ | 02/08/2014 | Reuters

Posted on 02/08/2014 6:07:31 AM PST by massmike

Russian police detained gay rights activists who tried to protest on Moscow's Red Square and in St Petersburg on Friday, shortly before Vladimir Putin opened the Sochi Winter Olympics, gay rights activists said.

Police in Moscow and St Petersburg did not immediately comment on the reports by the gay activists, who said 10 protesters were detained in Moscow and four in Russia's second city.

A list posted by one rights activist on Facebook said two of those detained in Moscow were women from Sweden.

In St Petersburg, the protesters were detained after unfurling a banner declaring "Discrimination is incompatible with the Olympic Movement", gay rights group All Out said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; olympics; russia
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To: Balding_Eagle

So you’re saying that people should have the right to promote bestiality, pedophilia and incest as well as homosexuality?

You’re sick. When the founders wrote the Bill of Rights, free speech was not meant to include promoting depravity and gross immorality.

And that is the way it should be - the way they intended.


101 posted on 02/08/2014 10:04:12 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: FluffyTexan; trisham

It’s a sad day when Free Republic is a platform for people promoting the homo agenda, bestiality, incest and pedophilia.


102 posted on 02/08/2014 10:06:15 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: CatherineofAragon
The fact that people bought into their gay-rights campaign doesn't mean that those campaigns should be silenced by the state. To redress what you believe are wrongs is a human right no matter how much I disagree.
103 posted on 02/08/2014 10:07:33 AM PST by FluffyTexan
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To: little jeremiah

It certainly is.


104 posted on 02/08/2014 10:08:21 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: FluffyTexan

You’re wasting your time. Unfortunately I’ve found FR to be full of the “free speech for me but not for thee” crowd. How liberal of them!


105 posted on 02/08/2014 10:09:11 AM PST by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: little jeremiah
I'm not promoting any of those things. I'm saying people have a right to speech that allows them to redress states. I think it's dishonest to imply otherwise.
106 posted on 02/08/2014 10:09:17 AM PST by FluffyTexan
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To: FluffyTexan; little jeremiah; CatherineofAragon; trisham

Thank you for the debate but it’s time for me to get my errands done. It’s been invigorating.


107 posted on 02/08/2014 10:11:14 AM PST by FluffyTexan
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To: massmike
Gay rights groups say the new law discriminates against gays and that it has fuelled attacks on homosexuals in Russia,

Just because they say it, doesn't make it so. For all I know if there were any attacks, they were hoaxes, just as they are here.

108 posted on 02/08/2014 10:11:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: FluffyTexan
" To redress what you believe are wrongs is a human right no matter how much I disagree."

Doesn't apply to perverts and deviants who endanger children and, in fact, society with their unhealthy, abominable behavior. It never has. This applies to queers, pedophiles, and those who practice bestiality.

What about this simple fact escapes you?

109 posted on 02/08/2014 10:14:12 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: FluffyTexan

I think you’re operating on a different level from the rest of us in that you view this strictly as a legal/constitutional matter and not a moral one. A government is reflective of a society’s values as it should be. Morality first, government second. Now, if there is a fundamental divide between people over gay rights as you suggest then we can go to war over it and the victor can secure the levers of power to settle the dispute once and for all.

But I don’t buy for a second this libertarian notion of government as being some sort of non-interested, agnostic, neutral arbiter in cultural disputes. Maybe it should, but pragmatically it is not. Government is force, and the question is who has the power and right now it is the other side.

So is government supposed to be a force for good? Or is it supposed to be like the monolith in 2001, just there blank and non-expressive?


110 posted on 02/08/2014 10:14:31 AM PST by JPX2011
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To: little jeremiah
So you’re saying that people should have the right to promote bestiality, pedophilia and incest as well as homosexuality?

Yes.

What you are promoting is not sick, it is evil.

Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

History has shown, beyond any doubt, that the path you are promoting will result in the deaths of hundreds of millions of Americans

111 posted on 02/08/2014 10:15:34 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
"Yes."

Dear Jesus.....

112 posted on 02/08/2014 10:18:23 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Balding_Eagle

We’ve already seen 55 million Americans sacrificed on the altar of such relativist buffoonery.


113 posted on 02/08/2014 10:19:01 AM PST by JPX2011
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To: CatherineofAragon
"Yes."

Dear Jesus.....

I notice you conveniently left off the important part of why the civil answer is 'Yes'.

What you are promoting is evil.

History has proven that beyond any doubt.

Think before you post.

114 posted on 02/08/2014 10:24:16 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: JPX2011
We’ve already seen 55 million Americans sacrificed on the altar of such relativist buffoonery.

I notice you still have the freedom to protest the relativist buffoonery.

Puzzling to me why you would want to promote a system which history has shown would shut down your voice in such matters.

Your ignorance is appalling.

115 posted on 02/08/2014 10:27:06 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Homosexuality, pedophilia, and bestiality are evil.

Faggotry is described in Scripture as shameless, debased, detestable, and an abomination. Promote it, and you invite God’s judgement on your country-—or at the very least, His turning away. I believe we see that happening now.


116 posted on 02/08/2014 10:31:36 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Balding_Eagle

It’s not ignorance, it’s pragmatism. You didn’t get your view of government in a vaccum. It’s a culmination of 2,000 + years of human thought and history. You’re proceeding from a conclusion (which you inherited) that contains fundamental truths about human nature. And yet you accept threats to those truths which are the underpinning of your understanding. That is appalling.


117 posted on 02/08/2014 10:36:25 AM PST by JPX2011
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To: CatherineofAragon; trisham; little jeremiah
Homosexuality, pedophilia, and bestiality are evil.

Faggotry is described in Scripture as shameless, debased, detestable, and an abomination. Promote it, and you invite God’s judgement on your country-—or at the very least, His turning away. I believe we see that happening now.

I agree entirely with your statements, and your observations above about perversion and moral corruption, and likewise with similar observations by Trisham, Little Jeremiah and others.

But somehow I can't take the next step, regarding locking up those who disagree publicly with us--possibly including Fluffy Texan and Balding Eagle, right?

I'm not playing a game here. Obviously the question is deadly serious. We already see the incredible moral degradation of our beloved country at the hands of leftists, deviants and relativists of every stripe.

Somehow for me the answer lies not with calling out the homo-speech police but rather fighting back as we always have, by way of family, community, moral decency, setting the example of a strong productive God-fearing life.

What am I overlooking? Why should I trust the government & its police to regulate good speech and bad speech?

(I ask the questions with all sincereity)

118 posted on 02/08/2014 10:51:40 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

Have you read all of the comments?


119 posted on 02/08/2014 10:58:36 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: FluffyTexan

There are only two sides.

1. Those promoting the evils of homosexuality, bestiality, incest and pedophilia should not have the legal right to promote such evils.

2. Those promoting the evils of homosexuality, bestiality, incest and pedophilia should have the legal right to promote such evils.

There is no third choice.


120 posted on 02/08/2014 10:59:50 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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