Posted on 01/18/2014 4:39:59 PM PST by ReformationFan
Far from backing down on its national ban on homosexual propaganda, the Russian government is going on the offensive, saying the European Union's promotion of homosexuality has led it to ignore real human rights violations, including the growth of ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi groups.
Since the bill was signed into law, Russia has been the target of a massive international campaign, spearheaded by the European Union and homosexual campaigners at the EU, to overturn it.
A report on human rights to the EU by the Russian government, accuses the EU of “the dissemination of their neo-liberal values as a universal lifestyle for all other members of the international community.”
“This is particularly evident in their aggressive promotion of the sexual minorities' rights,” the report said. “Attempts have been made to enforce on other countries an alien view of homosexuality and same-sex marriages as a norm of life and some kind of a natural social phenomenon that deserves support at the state level.”
This approach, it said, “encounters resistance not only in the countries upholding traditional values, but also in those countries which have always taken a liberal attitude towards queers.”
The 150-page report, titled “Report on the Human Rights Situation in the European Union,” notes that massive opposition – with rallies of up to a million people – against France’s “gay marriage” bill were ignored or condemned by the French Socialist government as well as the EU. “Suffice it to recall the protest reaction of a major part of the French society to the decision on legalization of same-sex marriages in the country,” it said.
It says that while the EU’s obsession with promoting homosexuality has led to suppression of civil liberties, “xenophobia, racism, violent nationalism, chauvinism and neo-Nazism” are growing unchecked across the continent.
“In this context, it is still clear that the existing system of protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms in the EU remains ineffective and [flawed],” the report said. “In the context of financial and economic crisis that continues in Europe, grave violations of the rights of minorities, refugees and migrants are increasing, and social rights of citizens are being infringed upon…The facts proving systematic and mass violations of privacy and infringements on the freedom of speech and media have caused a special concern,” the report said.
At the same time, Svetlana Zhurova, the a gold-medal figure skater and Russian MP and the honorary “mayor” of Sochi’s mountain Olympic village, has defended the law. Zhurova, who voted in favor of the law, told Russian TV channel Dozhd that it was a matter of protecting minors.
“I think they just shouldn't show a cartoon on TV — excuse me, I have two boys — where a king loves another king,” she said to Dozhd, which was repeated in English on Buzzfeed.
The Advocate, a homosexual magazine, reported that Zhurova has also said that other politicians, who will not speak out publicly, have contacted her “to let her know they secretly support” the law.
The law, which has raised fury in other countries, particularly Britain, was passed first on a smaller scale in historic St. Petersburg and nine other Russian jurisdictions, outlaws the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” to minors, including sex of any kind outside of marriage. The law effectively outlaws any observance of the “Gay Pride” movement that dominates many jurisdictions in Europe. The country has also moved to ban the adoption of Russian orphans outside Russia by homosexuals in countries with “gay marriage” or civil union laws.
Britain has pledged to send to the Sochi games the government minister responsible for passing the “same sex marriage” law, as a deliberate act of provocation. The British government announced yesterday that Culture Secretary Maria Miller will attend on Britain`s behalf. “Maria Miller has been a staunch champion of gay equality here in Britain," said Sam Dick, Director of Campaigns, at Stonewall the country’s leading homosexual political lobby.
In addition, the U..S has announced it is deliberately including three openly homosexual athletes in their delegation, and government officials from Germany, France, and the United States have said they will boycott the games.
While it continues to be the target of homosexual supporters outside the country, however, the law enjoys strong support from the Russian public. A 2013 survey found that 74 percent of Russians believe homosexuality should not be accepted by society, up from 60 percent in 2002.
Vitaly Mutko, Russia’s sports minister, accused the international media of fomenting the backlash against the law, saying that up to 88 percent of the Russian population supports it. He and the Russian government continue to insist that it will in no way affect the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics.
what?
Yea, that was all fueled by that idiot who got “tired” of dealing with her Russian adoption. She put the boy on a plane, unsupervised, no destination, no nothing, back to Moscow. RETURN TO SENDER.
Kid showed up in the airport and Russian baggage handlers took him in and reported what happened to the authorities.
That whole episode went over like a LOUD FART in an Orthodox church.
Russians were beside themselves pissed.
1950’s... America, pray for the conversion of Russia
2010’s... Russia, pray for the conversion of America
Good analogy but I’d say even as recently as the 1980s it was America praying for the conversion of Russia.
Our grandparents would think the 2010s were Bizarro World.
lol.
I don’t consider Putin much different than any Soviet leader
“but also in those countries which have always taken a liberal attitude towards queers.”
No holding back. God bless Russia
Then we are on the same page. Reading some of the comments on these Putin bromance threads makes me wonder if some Freepers would have had Reagan hand Nicaragua over to Andropov if only the latter had announced his opposition to queerdom.
Russia isn’t going to be bullied into catering to perverts. Good on them.
“So it is ok, then.”
Did I say that? No. I was just pointing out that we, the United States, arm our own enemies. Which is far worse than Russia arming our enemies, if you ask me.
“Britain has pledged to send to the Sochi games the government minister responsible for passing the “same sex marriage” law, as a deliberate act of provocation. The British government announced yesterday that Culture Secretary Maria Miller will attend on Britain`s behalf. “Maria Miller has been a staunch champion of gay equality here in Britain,” said Sam Dick, Director of Campaigns, at Stonewall the country’s leading homosexual political lobby.”
Arrest the stupid b7tch and throw her in the same jail cell those Green Peace terrorists once occupied. I sincerely hope the Russians recognize British provocation and give it their sternest response.
Who’s the kid?
I don’t consider Putin a role model no matter how buff he may be. He is still a dictator as far as I am concerned. Even the worst dictator will do something commendable but that does not change the fact that he is a despot.
After all how many opposition journalists have died under his regime? Even the worst dictator will do something commendable but that does not change the fact that he is a despot.
I was trying to make a distinction between our current Administration and previous ones. Granted, things were clearer-cut back then, but there is no reason for amnesia just because Obama is around.
Russia might as well arm our enemies. The US government sure does.
Obama and Kerry and McShame have been arming terrorists for years
I refer you to my comment #33.
In light of the fact that Iraq has now been taken over by terrorists thanks to Obama, I can’t really see what sense there was in those patriots dying. If they had known we’d elect Obama who would have Al Qaeda ruling Fallujah in no time, would they have bothered signing up? We’d have been better off nuking the place from orbit.
Obama is the worst thing to happen to this country. PERIOD.
Not just that, it was also an American and an Australian (both men) who adopted a little Russian boy and raped him, then took him to gay bars to be raped by their friends.
Obama is arming our enemies faster than Putin can.
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