Posted on 12/17/2012 8:32:29 AM PST by marshmallow
GENEVA, December 14, 2012 (Zenit.org).- A UN committee of legal experts reprimanded the Russian Federation last month for allowing the Ryazan province of Russia to enforce a law that bans the promotion of homosexuality among minors as part of a national effort to protect children from early sexualization, and related adverse health consequences.
In 2009 Irina Fedotova, a lesbian activist, lodged a complaint against Russia with the UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors the implementation of the 1966 International Convention of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). She was detained and fined for standing outside a secondary school with posters that read “Homosexuality is normal” and “I’m proud of my homosexuality – ask me about it.” Russian secondary schools are attended by children as young as 10 and as old as 17.
The UN committee decided that Ms. Fedotova had “not made any public actions aimed at involving minors in any particular sexual activity or at advocating any particular sexual orientation” and that she was merely “giving expression to her sexual identity and seeking understanding for it.”
The decision of the committee, known as “views” because it is neither binding nor enforceable, was divulged on November 30, and comes at a time when the Russian Federation is being widely criticized for bans on the promotion of homosexuality among minors enacted by several provinces and municipalities of the country. Similar legislation is being contemplated at the federal level.
The Constitution of the Russian Federation, according to Russia’s Constitutional Court, allows bans on the promotion of homosexuality among minors to preserve their health and morals.
The 1966 treaty on civil and political rights under which the complaint was brought similarly lists the preservation of public health and morals as one of three grounds on which state parties may limit free speech. The Human....
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That’s why the SICK Leftists are in the schools! If they can get to the Children while they are young their propaganda will be unquestioned. Be it Homosexuals,the Global Warming nuts, or PETA they want to indocrinate.
Send the queers to America, sark.
It is closer to s serious mental illness then a lifestyle choice,you can’t find happiness or a purpose in life unless you are willing to truly reach out to the opposite gender.
I am against legislating anything out of existence,unless it is truly heinous,but I can see where Russia is coming form.
The world is a strange place when I agree with the Russians.
the MSM is not covering this.
Protecting children from such easily avoidable dangers is lost to the media since the media mob IS the danger. All the news, from huricane sandy, bengazi, to this story is from a NYC bloomberg delusional perspective.
Placemark.
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