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!
“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.
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..
I find it extremely ironic that the most outspoken defender of Christianity in the world today is not the Impopester, but a former Soviet KGB officer.
‘Vladimir Putin claims it’s his “duty” to stop gay people from getting married.’
Technically speaking, I don’t think that has ever happened. A person who deals with same gender attraction has never been legally prevented from marrying a person of his or her opposite gender. It’s more honest to say that Putin opposes the legal redefinition of marriage into a “gender-neutral” institution.
Free Republic’s Anti-Putinistas will say anything Putin states is a lie or wrong. They won’t care that it means they are defending gay marriage.
And this is one of the reasons why the American Left despises him (and us).
Old Vlad is more intelligent than most if not all of the politicians in Washington and certainly most of our Federal judges.
After reading through this thread I must admit there’s a little part of me that wishes I were Russian living in Russia right now. A much larger part wishes America was more like it was 50 years ago without the big divisions between blacks and whites.
Things were better when gays kept their lifestyle to themselves rather than force it on society in every way possible including every new TV show. Their sexual lifestyle is not my business and it’s not the way nature or God intended it. It’s an aberration but when they kept to themselves about it; things were better. I guess there’s no going back but I do wish there were.
The irony is that Putin is more “Christian” than the Pope or any of the fake “protestant” church bureaucrats in the rest of the world!
One huge reason why the Democrats hate Putin.
Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
Talk about persecuting queers.
I really like Putin. Not sure if I’m supposed to, but I do.
Hell effing yes