Posted on 09/26/2018 8:41:42 PM PDT by granada
On a cold January evening, as plainclothes police officers hammered relentlessly on the door of their flat near Moscow, newlywed gay couple Pavel Stotsko and Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky began to consider fleeing Russia.
“It was a siege situation. The police were in the entrance to the building, and all around it,” Stotsko said this week from the Netherlands, where the couple, who are both 28, were recently granted asylum. “We sat in the flat like in a prison cell, totally alone and in fear,” said Voitsekhovsky.
The two men’s problems with the Russian authorities began at the start of the year after they wed in Denmark, where same-sex marriages have been legal since 2012.
Although homosexuality is not against the law in Russia, same-sex marriage is. But after studying Russian civil law, Stotsko and Voitsekhovsky realised that the authorities are obliged to recognise marriages that have been registered abroad, even those between same-sex couples. Russian officials, it appears, were unaware of the legal loophole.
Upon their return to Russia in January, the couple submitted their internal passports to a register’s office in Moscow, where a clerk “calmly and without any questions” put marriage stamps on the documents. All Russians over 14 must by law possess internal passports that document their place of residence and marital status. They cannot be used for foreign travel.
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Democrats wouldn’t be as successful in the US,if someone from outside wasn’t actively helping and guiding them.
The Russians are right to be worried.
The Russian’s are smarter than we are when it comes to traditional values that hold a society together.
Send them back. Now.
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“Lyosha Gorshkov, a New York-based activist and asylee who heads RUSA LGBT, told RFE/RL that since 2016 there has also been a “huge influx” of HIV-positive gay men from Russia seeking U.S. asylum.”
Brighton Beach will welcome them.....or maybe not.
There is such a consortium, and they have quite subverted the American system by using creeping marginal ordinances and penumbra court decisions to define deviancy downward. For some time I have maintained that God may use a changed Russia to bring His judgment on America the same way he has used Shalmaneser to subject Northen Israel and disperse the Hebrew residents, and subsequently Nebuchadnezzar to carry away the ever-increasing idolatry of Judah, the Southern Kingdom of Judah’s descendants.
HIVV.....HIV Vectors.
The West really has become the decadent cesspit that the USSR warned about in the Cold War days. The communists had a lot to do with that fall but the youth and the left of all western countries ran with it like there was no tomorrow. How things have changed. Yet at the top Vlad is no different than his predecessors and at least for once America has a true leader. What happens after Trump I have great concerns about but it will not only be the US that will benefit from judgement.
The same gay, etc., conspiracy is happening in the US and it’s eroding American cultural norms and values.
Not surprising since Russia never allowed the Lavender Mafia and their allies to assume control of their nation’s education system.
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