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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Dos Equis on January 29, 2007, 10:25:13 AM
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Don't hear news from Russia on this issue too much.
Moscow Mayor Calls Gay Rights Parade 'Satanic'
Monday, January 29, 2007
MOSCOW — Moscow's mayor vowed Monday never to allow a gay rights parade, calling such events "satanic," but activists said they would defy a city ban to hold what would be the Russian capital's first gay rights parade.
Yury Luzhkov and city authorities had barred activists from staging a parade last year, citing the threat of violence. Activists ignored the ban and were pummeled by right-wing protesters and detained by police.
Speaking at a Kremlin event attended by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Luzhkov again lambasted gay and lesbian groups:
"Last year, Moscow came under unprecedented pressure to sanction the gay parade, which can be described in no other way than as satanic," he said to applause in comments broadcast on a city-controlled TV channel. "We did not let the parade take place then, and we are not going to allow it in the future."
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He also charged that Western countries were facing a crisis of religious faith and were corrupting children.
"Some European nations bless single-sex marriages and introduce sexual guides in schools. Such things are a deadly moral poison for children," RIA-Novosti quoted Luzhkov as saying.
Meanwhile, Russian gay activists said they were challenging the city's ban of their parade in an appeal to the European Court for Human Rights, and pledged to hold a similar march in late May.
"Trying to silence us, the Russian authorities denied us one of the fundamental human rights. The European justice will have the last say in this case," activist and parade organizer Nikolai Alexeyev said in a statement posted on the Web site gayrussia.ru.
The issue of holding a gay parade last year split Moscow's gay community, many of whom say that Russian society is still too conservative and a parade would only provoke more violence from radical groups.
Gay rights activists estimate that 5-8 percent of Russia's 143 million people are gay and lesbian.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248130,00.html
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Mother russia doesn't like fags. ;D
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and hence the Rclu is founded
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In the one minute it took to read this article, the US spent $139,000 in Iraq.
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Russias awesome lol, wish our gov had balls like that.
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Russia has always been behind the rest of the world... Since the time of the Czars, they were always behind.
Only two rulers of Russia's entire past have been forward thinkers... One was of course Gorbechev, the other was Peter the Great, who didn't want Russia to become a backwoods country, but a progressive forward thinking country that could lead the world.
The rest of the rulers have always been behind the times... Whether you like or hate homosexuals, you've gotta admit, Russia is backwards.
-Tu
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and hence the Rclu is founded
lol ;D