[wonkowasright]

Putin is the best bet on the world stage right now for the traditional family values crowd.

[Viennacon]

What recent victories does the SBC have under its belt? I can see where they are coming from, but guys, you have to start winning some of these fights.

[Olog-hai]

I would not say “best bet” (still very legal to be gay in Russia), but the SBC has been quite liberal of late themselves and now look like hypocrites.

[Farmer Dean]

What has happened to the Southern Baptists lately?Seems like they have lost their way.

[RitaOK]

Putin is the only game in town for bothering to fight the sodomites at all and the sodomy sympathetic crowd that nurtures it for votes. On the subject, he speaks absolute truth.

Putin can rightly be faulted for many things, but it is a courageous stand he takes drawing a line in the sand on sodomy, in the face of Western pressure to globalize and mainstream the diabolical, literally everywhere. The US even hinges its aid to impoverished countries on the acceptance of sodomy.

Reportedly, Russia (Putin) is restoring the former glory of the long gone Orthodox Catholic Church to the exclusion of all protestant efforts to establish there. Therein could also be much of the rub by the good pastor penning the article.

Certainly his Constantine-all-bad could be a tip off.

[GeronL]

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He is an autocratic tyrant. He might happen to agree with us on some things, but he is not even close to being part of the family values crowd

[Romulus]

If the SBC’s sulking, it’s probably because Putin doesn’t show official favor to Russian Baptists the same way he does to the Orthodox. Tough.

[petitfour]

Probably shouldn’t be casting stones regardless.

[dangus]

>> Moore cited Russia’s “rampant abortion” rate and restrictions on foreign adoption in a country “that has orphanages filled with children.” <<

Russia’s abortion rate is down over 80% since Putin was elected. What an idiot.

[marshmallow]

The critical thing in life, in religion........in everything, is not so much where you are right now. The critical thing is the direction in which you are heading. This is true for us as individuals and it's true for countries, also. Russia is heading out of darkness, out of a 75 year atheistic nightmare and into the light. That's the direction in which it is heading. We can quibble about where it is right now but its overall direction is unmistakable. The US, on the other hand, is heading in exactly the opposite direction. The darkness which grips this country grows deeper by the day.

Not welcome news for Freepers whose time clock is stuck on 1962.

[P-Marlowe]

I suppose a Muslim Imam might be stronger on “Family Values” than Putin but Putin is actively encouraging childbirth and Christianity. On that front he is a heck of a lot better than the clown that we have.

[cunning_fish]

Russian family was ruined in a period of 1920-1960 the way it is done in US right now.
With a legacy like that you can’t expect wonders but at least they are moving in right direction.