Posted on 06/16/2017 6:16:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
In an interview with Oliver Stone, Putin declared "God has decided."
Vladimir Putin claims it’s his “duty” to stop gay people from getting married.
In an interview with Oliver Stone airing on Showtime this week, the Russian president explained that, as head of state, he was obligated “to uphold traditional values and family values.”
His reasoning? “Because same-sex marriages will not produce any children. God has decided, and we have to care about birth rates in our country. We have to reinforce families.”
“But,” he added, “that doesn’t mean that there should be any persecutions against anyone.”
Repression of Russia’s LGBT community is well-documented, but Putin has continually denied queer people face persecution. Talking with Stone, he claimed Russia is “liberal-minded to a great extent,” and insisted gay Russians are under no particular threat.
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Maybe he meant it.
Hmmmm, sounds like a typical US politician of say just 20 years ago. Doesn’t sound like a monster to me.
There's a big push right now to blame the recent, well-publicized torture and murder (by their own families) of gays in Chechnya on Putin, as if he has any say whatsoever in how Chechnya is governed. They completely dance around the fact the Chechnya is governed by Islam. Nope, can't be Islam. Must be Putin! And Trump!
The polls say he is popular amongst Americans right now. Can’t always trust polls these days but they may be correct this time.
“Because same-sex marriages will not produce any children. God has decided, and we have to care about birth rates in our country. We have to reinforce families.”
Abortion does not produce any children either and Putin’s Russia has the Highest Abortion Rate in the world.
And Russia’s Murder Rate and Suicide rates which far exceed America’s does not reinforce families.
Abortion rates in Russia have also plummeted in the last 5 or 6 years.
Good for him! Gay couples can make good parents. Many of these relationships are more stable than many straights. I will error on the side of stability and freedom every time.
Russia has reversed their demographic decline and seen a major resurgence of Christianity. They may not be allies but do they have to be our enemies?
Did you mistype? What you typed isn’t grounded in reality.
Off your meds?
thankyou Vlad...saying what needs to be said...sex, unlike the playboy philosophy, and according to biology, is meant TO CREATE CHILDREN and thankfully, God made it pleasurable..
>Abortion does not produce any children either and Putin’s Russia has the Highest Abortion Rate in the world.
>And Russia’s Murder Rate and Suicide rates which far exceed America’s does not reinforce families.
Go check the numbers they’re way down in Russia since 2009. Putin’s plan for putting Christianity and by exstention the family at the heart of Russian life is working. This plan is also why the left suddenly hates Putin so very much.
“Putin’s Russia” has dramatically reduced Russia’s previously sky-high abortion rate.
They don’t have the problem completely under control, but by working with the Russian Orthodox Church Putin has made a good start at putting his nation on a pro-life, pro-natalist course.
Gay couples, per se, cannot model natural marriage or foster their children’s normal, healthy psychosexual development.
I would far rather see kids raised by a single *celibate* gay adoptive parent, than by a gay couple, male or female. A celibate parent at least isn’t imposing on the child early immersion in a distorted relationship pattern.
I am glad to see Trump moving America closer to Russia and farther from the socialist degenerates of Western Europe — especially those in the satanic EU. Trump and Putin can set the world right if they keep working together.
Gays don’t bother me. As parents they don’t scare the barnyard animals so what’s the problem?
They may not be allies but do they have to be our enemies?
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Yep...wanna know why?....because the Globalists say so! Russia absolutely refuses to allow Western Globalists to expand their own brand of secularized, crony-capitalism around the planet. I mean...how could we be friends if they won’t allow that to happen? /s
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