Posted on 08/07/2013 6:06:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last month, I wrote about Russia’s harsh backlash against gay-rights activism (“Russia Says ‘Nyet’ to Gay Adoptions“), and it turns out that this explains the cancellation of a scheduled summit:
The Wall Street Journal, among others, reports that President Barack Obama has decided to cancel a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s grant of temporary asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Yet that cannot possibly be the case. A few weeks ago, when Snowden arrived in Russia, Obama brushed the issue aside: he was not “scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,” he said.
Obama also downplayed the Snowden issue on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday, as the Daily Caller notes. But he played up the conflict over gay rights, citing Russia’s insistence that it will enforce its anti-gay laws during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi (and confusing them with the Summer Olympics in the process). He claimed that he had “been very clear” that gay rights “should transcend every country.” . . .
Read the rest by Joel Pollak at Breitbart News. The astute reader will perceive how the whole “neocon imperialist crusader” philosophy of Bush administration foreign policy, which Obama supposedly was going to reverse, has instead been simply converted to other purposes. Whereas the Republicans were going to spread “democracy” to the Middle East at the point of a bayonet, now the Obama regime aims to spread cultural liberalism by means of diplomatic hardball. This is a further sop to the same vocal minority that supports John Kerry’s recognition of foreign gay marriages for immigration purposes.
Can’t wait to see what the paleoconservatives have to say about this, and expect this may be a rare occasion of paleo/neo agreement.
America Loves You, Sama Elmasry!
Øbongo: “Voted most likely to initiate world war over fag rights”
Yup. That’s what he’s upset about.
The Rump Rangers are infuriated by the Evil Vlad Putin for re-criminalizing their criminal behavior. So they complained to Mr. Afro MetroSexual.
Even more hilarious: the San Jose Mercury News today declared themselves to be “more enlightened” then the backward Russians because they tolerate and celebrate....homosexuality.
Concentration camps, mass murder, wars, dictatorship...none of that bothered The Enlightened Ones of the American Mass Media.
Nope. What bothers them about Russia is...they aren’t down for the Homosexual.
well when the President and 50 + percent of his Administration is gay what do you expect
So does this mean Maobama will also cancel all his meetings with the Mohammedan nations?
More likely Obummer cancelled it because he knows what a wimp he is, especially in comparison to Putin; a man who is not testicularly challenged; who is not a metrosexual wuss. The risk of once again being publicly humiliated and shown as impotent by an unimpressed Putin was too great.
Probably afraid he and Reggie will be arrested while there.
America has become part of the axis of evil.
There is sexual discrimination all over the world—for women. The lengths is goes is beyond the imagination. For instance, in Saudi Arabia, a girl caught chatting with boys on Facebook was beaten and later shot to death.
So, I have a challange for all those who think it is cool to pour cheap Vodka out in protest of Russia’s strict rules on homosexual behavior. In protest of Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women, go to the gas pump and pump up a five gallon can of gas. That should cost about the same as a fifth of Vodka. Take it to the street corner and pour it out on the ground. Don’t burn yourself.
Putin is actually getting behind Orthodox Christianity, which is why Barry and the Lavender Mob is all up in arms.
Putin’s position on homosexual rights was originally internal - he is a former KGB, and as such, he is always on the look-out for opposition political movements, which is what so-called “homosexual rights” lobby would be.
Now his position is paying unexpected dividends to him, in that it is making the USA, his old nemesis, look foolish as Obama rises to take the bait.
What a hell of faggoty, degenerate cesspool America has become under Obama. Might as well change the flag, and replace the stars-and-stripes with a depiction of some dude’s hairy anus.
Such a Bizzaro world it has become. America goes sicko, embracing perversion and evil, while Russia stands up for decency and cultural self-survival.
>>>Putin’s position on homosexual rights was originally internal - he is a former KGB, and as such, he is always on the look-out for opposition political movements, which is what so-called “homosexual rights” lobby would be.
Now his position is paying unexpected dividends to him, in that it is making the USA, his old nemesis, look foolish as Obama rises to take the bait.<<<
I guess nobody who screams out loud in MSNBC has ever read this “anti-homosexual law”.
It has nothing to do with persecution of homosexual and comparing it to Holocaust is beyond ridiculous.
This law is a kind of DADT(to minors). “Gay pride” is banned for a single reason - it is public and you can’t hide it from children.
Queers aren’t banned from any kind of their activism as soon as it targets adults only. They can have their “pride” at private space as well.
hat makes it illegal is recruiting people under 18 into that kind of lifestyles.
For that same reason Obama and MSNBC and other critics of this law are backing pedophiles, not homosexuals.
We have a gay Muslim (despite Muslims hating gays), so called black (despite being mostly Arab/White), essentially fatherless kid who wrote a book about the dreams of his drunken black maybe father, admitted drug abuser of dubious provenance (fake B.C. and various claims of citizenship) POTUS.
How Fu@ked are we!?!? Why should we be surprised that the foreign policy of a once serious and successful country be dictated by whether or not another country approves of those who like to unnaturally penetrate members of the same sex?
Wow. President You Didn’t Build That sure does know how to hurt Putin’s feelings, doesn’t he?
Putin told His Arrogance that Reggie couldn’t earn pocket change by trolling the streets for hookups.
What's his position on Muslin/Arab countries where homosexuals are either stoned or hanged?
So we have St Barry the Fabulous and his son, St Skittles being the major drivers of the US policy both foreign and domestic. Whew, good thing we didn’t elect Romney..
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