[dirtboy]

In Russia, apparently, attacks on Christianity by hedonists are taken very seriously.

OK, what if an American denomination was deeply in bed with the Obama Administration in a hypothetical Obama second term and approved of Obama Administration crackdowns on dissent.

Would you disapprove of protestors going into a church to stand against that church's kowtowing to Obama?

I think too many people are taking sides for the wrong reasons here. Putin is trying to make this an affront to Christianity when it was a protest against his persecution against dissent and the Orthodox Church being in bed with him.

[Antoninus]

I think too many people are taking sides for the wrong reasons here. Putin is trying to make this an affront to Christianity when it was a protest against his persecution against dissent and the Orthodox Church being in bed with him.

The Russian Orthodox Church is the established church of Russia. I may not agree with this set up, but it certainly is better than the situation in Russia up through 1991.

Would you disapprove of protestors going into a church to stand against that church's kowtowing to Obama?

Uh, if they stripped down to their underwear and vandalized the church, showing utter contempt for Christianity? "Disapprove" is not a strong enough word, frankly.

[Cronos]

OK, what if an American denomination was deeply in bed with the Obama Administration in a hypothetical Obama second term and approved of Obama Administration crackdowns on dissent.

If someone jumped into a Reform Jewish synagogue and did what PR did in the Church in Moscow, then yes they should have the law against them. The question is what law -- in Russia there has been a law against disrespect to the Churches and that's what was used against PR, not some new random judgement.

[Cronos]

BTW, we don't have 'legitimate' in the First Amendment over here.

And what happened was in Russia, not in the USA.

you are jumping from topic to topic, first linking PussyRiot as a voice of the Russian opposition, then when being pointed out that they are NOT the voice of the opposition, you go in a tangent

on the contrary Pussy Riot is disruptive to the anti-Putin crowd, making it easy to label all opposition as somehow this kind of crowd that wants to destroy Russian culture. If you want to say PR is the voice of the anti-Putin opposition then you are supporting Putin and his point of view