On the flip side of your rebuttals of Glenn (I agree he appears unbalanced), when a government starts to exert pressures/deny normal rights/privileges because it doesn’t like something about a sector, it is a step towards targeting the next, perhaps not quite so bad, sector and then the next....Denying them drivers licenses is not the same as trying to stop homosexual “marriage”.
I don’t believe Russians thought this law through at all. They are also denying drivers licenses for gamblers. The only way authorities know that someone has a gambling problem is when he himself goes and registers it. I think denying drivers license for gamblers will result in addicts just not going for help.