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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Good.
I’ll second that!
I hope the Russians are not as gentle with them as they were with the Greenpeace pirates. Unless they send a strong message to such radicals, they will be perpetually incited by them.
Obviously some people don’t get the message. It is one thing to be a homo but another to tell the world in Russia that you are. Their country, their rules.
Should have dumped them into the wood chipperski.
It's wrong when it happens to tea parties here and it's wrong when it happens to gay rights protesters there. These things are limited by our individual conscience and not what the state will tolerate.
It’s just an “alternative” life style, that causes death, disease, suicide, cultural and moral decay.
Good. They weren’t arrested for being gay; they were arrested for wanting their agenda to dominate.
I’m fine with this. These groups don’t want equality. They already have that. They demand much, much more.
Their websites have many links to HIV / AIDs treatment facilities. Found this out while doing abackground check on a guy that was gay (didn’t know it beforehand; his own posts in forums online “outed” him).
Good Morning,
I’m symphathetic to your view. However, what you have to ask yourself is if the purpose of the speech is subversive in nature? This is not without precedent. Germany is hostile to Scientology because they understand what it means to have organizations infiltrate positions of influence and power, especially secret ones.
I believe that the argument can be made that the gay rights movement is subversive and totalitarian and as such shouldn’t be afforded the typical protections of political speech either in law or as a function of culture.
The Russians have their own brand of radicals to deal with, the Muslim separatists that are leading the wave of bombings and hostage situation that have led to very aggressive SWAT-like takedowns. There is no, ZERO, tolerance anywhere in Russia for any kind of “gay-rights” activism, and it is crushed with the same ferocity as any other disruption of public order there. Regardless of what economic base the Russian state is founded upon, the rulers in that country are still Russians, and though the Cossacks have long since passed into history, their successors are still very much entrenched in the fabric of Russia.
The "reform" they want is the right to push their perversion onto Russian society, and demand that it be lauded as normal and right. They're not just after toleration. The homosexual agenda in this country should have made that clear to you.
The Russians can do what they want in their own country; we don't have the right to dictate to them. And if they don't want coprophilic deviants marching in the streets, then good for them.
Unlike Glenn Beck, I do not think gays have a right to push their sexual preferences/marriage ideas on the whole planet. Since Russia said no/nyet then we should respect their sovereignty as a nation and keep “gay rights” on this side of the planet.
Contrary opinions are ALWAYS subversive in autocratic states.
There are always exceptions to be found for unpopular speech. The bottom line is that these people engaged in political speech, the state disapproved, the state shut them down. This is prior restraint by an autocratic state.
“Contrary” opinions.
How about perverted, unnatural, society-destroying opinions?
Who is dictating? I believe prior restraint by the state is wrong. People always have been and always will be engaged in cultural and societal struggles as to what is normal and right. The subject changes but the debate never does.
The state simply should not be forbidding one side or the other of any cultural debate from speaking their mind. That is tyranny and rightly opposed.
Good!
“This is silencing political speech that is disapproved of by authorities. - plain and simple.”
No, this is silencing homo speech intended on poisoning the minds and spirits of our children and societal culture at large. I applaud the Russians.
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