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Offline flowers

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Putin Signs Anti-Gay Measures Into Law
« on: July 01, 2013, 05:18:44 pm »
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President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a measure that stigmatizes gay people and bans giving children any information about homosexuality.

The State Duma unanimously passed the Kremlin-backed bill on June 11 and the upper house approved it last week.

The ban on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" is part of an effort to promote traditional Russian values over Western liberalism, which the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church see as corrupting Russian youth and contributing to the protests against Putin's rule.

Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-signs-anti-gay-measures-into-law/482537.html#ixzz2XobqZ7Bt
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Re: Putin Signs Anti-Gay Measures Into Law
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2013, 11:08:11 pm »
Good for him. It sure is sad that I am agreeing more with Putin these days than the illegal president we have. Congress where are you? 

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Re: Putin Signs Anti-Gay Measures Into Law
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2013, 11:34:25 pm »
Good for him. It sure is sad that I am agreeing more with Putin these days than the illegal president we have.
I am agreeing with Putin and 3rd world countries of late.