More Russian backward thinking

[stickygirl]

Gay rights activists protest outside the lower house of Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, in Moscow, on June 11, 2013. Russia’s parliament debated today a law introducing steep 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.

Voting was 436-0 to ban gay ‘propaganda' so if stats are anything to go by, then 43 gay people voted in support of the ban

 

[emap]

Off topic, is it just me or is the soldier in the back there checking out the boy in the white jacket's ass?

Need a link to see the law because unless the propaganda is defined there has to be a backyard deal in place to do something else later. One of those political things where something gets voted in and then later adjusted or removed so a certain group can be reelected.

Politics what a lovely thing.

 

[stickygirl]

Well I know Russia is incredibly homophobic

(sorry don't know why that image wants to download)

Youths kick a gay rights activist during a protest against a proposed new law termed by the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, as "against advocating the rejection of traditional family values" in central Moscow June 11, 2013. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

As parliament debated the bill, gay activists who had taken part in a "kissing protest" outside parliament to demonstrate against the law were harassed and pelted with eggs by anti-gay protesters, then about 20 of them were arrested.

Look - no hypocrites in Russia

 

[John Doe]

Off topic, is it just me or is the soldier in the back there checking out the boy in the white jacket's ass?

Need a link to see the law because unless the propaganda is defined there has to be a backyard deal in place to do something else later. One of those political things where something gets voted in and then later adjusted or removed so a certain group can be reelected.

Politics what a lovely thing.

Are you sure about that?