Posted on 07/11/2022 6:12:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, July 11, Interfax - Propaganda regarding non-traditional relations will be banned in Russia for everyone regardless of their age, State Duma Information Policy, IT and Communications Committee head Alexander Khinshtein said.
"Such a ban [on propaganda regarding non-traditional sexual relations] currently only applies to children. Of course, that is clearly not enough. We suggest generally applying the ban on such propaganda regardless of the age of the audience (offline, in the mass media, on the Internet, on social networks, and also in online movie theaters)," Khinshtein said on his Telegram channel on Monday.
He also said it has been proposed to introduce administrative liability for such propaganda, expanding Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences (it currently applies only to propaganda among minors and envisages a fine in the amount of up to one million rubles, 15 days of arrest, and suspension of the operations of a legal entity).
It is also envisaged to introduce a separate, even tougher liability for the propaganda of pedophilia.
It is also proposed to "ban the dissemination among children not only of propaganda, but also any other information demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations and perversions," the parliamentarian said.
"These initiatives have already been tentatively coordinated with [Russia's telecoms watchdog] Roskomnadzor and the Digital Development Ministry," Khinshtein said.
The State Duma Information Policy Committee has started working on these initiatives, and "we will be ready to discuss them publicly in the fall session," he said.
Earlier in July, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to ban propaganda regarding non-traditional values.
LGBT propaganda among minors is currently banned in Russia. A bill banning this propaganda overall has been submitted to the State Duma.
Why are you citing old stat’s?
Hopefully this means we’ll see Pussy Riot getting whipped by Cossacks again should they travel to Russia.
This was part of a prophecy propounded by our Lady of Fatima.
“And i am supposed to hate Russia?”
Ironically, Russia may end up being the savior of what used to be called “Western Civilization” .
*** WTHeck?? ***
The few, the Proud... Guy in line behind is keeping his distance, and looking like, “cooties”.
Show your support for Jesus and move there!
Christians who love the kind of statist authoritarianism that Russia provides (and there are a lot of them) should waste no time and go there.
How far we have fallen….in so short a time.
Wow.
Rather, in practice its people are nominally RO, and while Putin may be an instrument of Divine chastisement of America, and which should commend Putin's opposition to the LGBTQ agenda, but he is the dictator of corrupt government and which persecutes the most conservative Christians, evangelicals, even outlawing any evangelism by them or any other church apart from RRO sanction.
Across all three waves of ISSP data, no more than about one-in-ten Russians said they attend religious services at least once a month. And it is Putin who boasts of his power to destroy America, and helps its enemies, including seeking an alliance with China. Liberals oppose him due to his anti-LGBTQ stance and favoring Trump and being a threat to their dominance, while traditional conservatives - at least non-RO Christians who expressing of faith Putin outlawed - overall oppose Putin due to him being the actual threat to our faith and freedoms.
Abortion Rates by Country 2022 [i find none newer]
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country: The U.N. data offers a strong example of the shortcomings of abortion statistics: It covers less than a third of the world's 193 countries and is increasingly outdated, yet it remains some of the best data available.
Another source (6 yrs ago) Another source (13 yrs ago):
Russian source:
" means "consolidating the efforts of parliamentarians and the Russian Orthodox Church" which itself persecutes all others. If Putin was really in favor of religious freedom he would protect it for those outside the LBG Russian Orthodox church.
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Moscow church destroyed in sign of new Russian repression Posted on Sep 26, 2012 | by Jill Nelson
MOSCOW (BP) -- It was in the early hours of the morning on Sept. 6 when Pastor Vasili Romanyuk's phone rang. A group of men backed by local police were demolishing his Holy Trinity Pentecostal Church, housed in a three-story building nestled in a Moscow suburb. As word spread, congregants arrived at the scene hoping to save the building, but their efforts were futile. By dawn the church was in ruins and some of its most valuable contents were missing.
An isolated incident? A misunderstanding? Analysts watching the current climate in the former Cold War country don't think so: "This destruction of the church is about as concrete of evidence as you can get that something very bad and very troubling is taking place," said Katrina Lantos Swett, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. "This could not have happened without the backing, support, and implicit blessing of the police."
The incident is just one sign of deteriorating freedoms in Russia, and behind the scenes a cozy relationship between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church has raised more than a few eyebrows. As President Vladimir Putin digs into his third term, a number of Kremlin crackdowns involving vague interpretations of the country's extremism law and other human-rights abuses are troubling signs that the country has slipped into a familiar, repressive era.
"When you have unknown people backed by the police coming out at midnight to begin tearing down a church, you know something doesn't smell right," Lantos Swett said.
Officials evicted Holy Trinity Church from its original building in 1995 and relocated the church to the eastern Moscow suburb. The congregation used its own funds to construct a new building and repeatedly battled officials over permits. The church demolition and its history reflect an emerging pattern: Authorities confiscate land from non-favored religious communities and force the congregation to relocate to a remote suburb, the religious leaders apply for permits that are subsequently denied, and officials confiscate (once again) or demolish the relocated congregation, citing lack of proper documentation.
Pastor Romanyuk and a small group of the church's 550 congregants arrived on site around 3:30 a.m. as about 45 men claiming to be civil volunteers blocked them from the building and threw stones. "When I arrived, I just burst into tears," 25-year-old Natalya Cherevichinik told The Moscow Times as she surveyed the destruction. "I couldn't believe that something that had been built over several years could be destroyed in a few hours."
Russian Evangelicals Leery of Orthodox Church, Friday, December 30, 2011:
class="adjusted">MOSCOW, Russia -- For decades, the Russian Orthodox Church was persecuted under the Soviet Union's Communist Party.
Since the early 1990s, the church has grown in size and influence as its relationship with the Russian government has improved significantly.
However, that cozy relationship worries the country's evangelicals.
Threats Against Evangelicals
For eight years, Yuri Sipko ran one of the largest Baptist organizations in Russia. Now, 20 years after the fall of Communism, he worries about the growing threats against the country's evangelical movement.
"The collapse of Communism was supposed to usher in an era of greater religious freedom, but I'm concerned we are moving in the wrong direction," Sipko said.
What makes the Russian evangelicals very concerned is an emerging relationship between the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church.
"For example, the government recently introduced religious classes based on the principals of the Orthodox Church in public schools," Sipko said.
"Then late last year, the Russian president announced an initiative to appoint Orthodox chaplains to all army units," he said. "Our constitution clearly states no religion can be the state religion."
Russia Church-State Relations
Russia watchers credit two men, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, for elevating the church's prominence. The state media has also played a key role, often showing the leaders attending church services.
Sergey Ryakhovski knows both men well. As head of Russia's Pentecostal Union, he meets regularly with top government and Orthodox Church leaders.
Ryakhovski worries that the Orthodox Church's influence is coming at the expense of religious freedom, especially for minority groups such as Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists.
"There are so many laws and by-laws that regulate religious life in Russia," Ryakhovski said. "For example, evangelical Christians just can't go out and buy a church building or buy a piece of land to build a church."
"Plus, criticizing or challenging the Orthodox Church is not a task for all," he added.
Orthodox Church Revival
The Russian Orthodox Church on the other hand has had it easy in recent times after decades of state persecution.
Church buildings that were destroyed during the Soviet era have been rebuilt with Russian taxpayer money. In the past 20 years, the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars restoring some 23,000 churches.
Most Russians say they belong to the Orthodox Church. Yet CBN News found mixed reactions on the streets of Moscow to the growing bond between church and state
At Expense of All Others, Putin Picks a Church
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY Published: April 24, 2008
STARY OSKOL, Russia —
It was not long after a Methodist church put down roots here that the troubles began.
First came visits from agents of the F.S.B., a successor to the K.G.B., who evidently saw a threat in a few dozen searching souls who liked to huddle in cramped apartments to read the Bible and, perhaps, drink a little tea. Local officials then labeled the church a “sect.” Finally, last month, they shut it down.
There was a time after the fall of Communism when small Protestant congregations blossomed here in southwestern Russia, when a church was almost as easy to set up as a general store. Today, this industrial region has become emblematic of the suppression of religious freedom under President Vladimir V. Putin.
Just as the government has tightened control over political life, so, too, has it intruded in matters of faith. The Kremlin’s surrogates in many areas have turned the Russian Orthodox Church into a de facto official religion, warding off other Christian denominations that seem to offer the most significant competition for worshipers. They have all but banned proselytizing by Protestants and discouraged Protestant worship through a variety of harassing measures, according to dozens of interviews with government officials and religious leaders across Russia.
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In contrast,
the early days of the American experiment the famous French Catholic political thinker and historian, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) best known for his two volume, "Democracy in America") attested,
Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more did I perceive the great political consequences resulting from this state of things, to which I was unaccustomed. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country. <
The sects that exist in the United States are innumerable. They all differ in respect to the worship which is due to the Creator; but they all agree in respect to the duties which are due from man to man. Each sect adores the Deity in its own peculiar manner, but all sects preach the same moral law in the name of God...Moreover, all the sects of the United States are comprised within the great unity of Christianity, and Christian morality is everywhere the same...
n the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth...
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live... Thus religious zeal is perpetually warmed in the United States by the fires of patriotism. These men do not act exclusively from a consideration of a future life; eternity is only one motive of their devotion to the cause. If you converse with these missionaries of Christian civilization, you will be surprised to hear them speak so often of the goods of this world, and to meet a politician where you expected to find a priest. (Democracy in America, [New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1851), pp. 331, 332, 335, 336-7, 337; http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/ch1_17.htm)
And Benjamin Franklin also advertised,
And the Divine Being seems to have manifested His approbation of the mutual forbearance and kindness by which the different sects treat each other, and by the remarkable prosperity with which He has been please to favor the whole country. (Benjamin Franklin, "Information to those who would Remove to America" In Franklin, Benjamin. The Bagatelles from Passy. Ed. Lopez, Claude A. New York: Eakins Press. 1967; http://mith.umd.edu//eada/html/display.php?docs=franklin_bagatelle4.xml. Also, John Gould Curtis, American history told by contemporaries .... Volume 3, p. 26)
“It’s part of a Russian propaganda campaign aimed at the West.”
The West did not have to turn into pervert central, but their leaders chose to do so.
Russia would be foolish not to take advantage of the new reality.
Including all the ads.
The old USSR was just as socially conservative and just as “homophobic,” but the libs certainly didn’t seem to mind back then.
“And the Divine Being seems to have manifested His approbation of the mutual forbearance and kindness by which the different sects treat each other, and by the remarkable prosperity with which He has been please to favor the whole country.”
There was a lot less “forbearance” of catholics (papists) than for the protestant sects. It wasn’t until 1960 that a catholic was elected president.
And today there is even less forbearance of “evangelical” Islam.
The amount of freedom tolerated by any society is enforced and defined by its shared set of values. You stray too far away from those values and you become a persona non grata.
Thus, two belief systems with diametrically opposed set of values like Christianity and Islam can never peacefully coexist together. At least not until each is willing to give up some of its values and meet somewhere in the middle in common ground.
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