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MOSCOW, March 16 (RIA Novosti) US President Barack Obama must have known that his support of gay marriage would bring him trouble. But of all possible repercussions, a demand to roll back Alaskas 1867 sale to the United States was one he was unlikely to have seen coming. And yet that was the very claim that an ultraconservative religious group made in a Moscow arbitrage court, citing the need to protect fellow Christians from sin.
Obamas alleged plans to legalize the so-called same-sex marriage threaten the freedom of religion of Alaskas Orthodox Christians, who would never accept sin for normal behavior, the nongovernmental group Pchyolki (Bees) said. We see it as our duty to protect their right to freely practice their religion, which allows no tolerance to sin, the group said in a statement on their website.
The Pchyolki are a relatively obscure group created in 2008 to protect orphans rights in Russia, which it did by campaigning against sexual education in schools, among other things. Their biggest claim to fame, until the Alaska lawsuit, was last years instruction for believers published after punk band Pussy Riots notorious performance in a Moscow church. The instruction on protecting places of worship from blasphemers advised to distract the offenders by spitting in their faces, ruin their recording equipment if they have any with holy water and detain them, with bloodshed deemed acceptable as long as it happens outside the church grounds.
The Russian Orthodox Church estimated its flock in Alaska at about 50,000 of the states total population of 730,000, the BBC said in 2010, adding that the faith was the main legacy of Russias 68-year-long rule over the northern territory.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130316/180055377/Russian-Fundamentalists-Sue-US-Want-Alaska-Back.html
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)love_katz
(2,584 posts)Typical fundy fanatic idiots, thinking no one else has any right to their beliefs.
AnnieBW
(10,465 posts)Before they decide if they want Alaska back. I mean, they can see her house from Russia!
dembotoz
(16,862 posts)deal is sounding better
Takket
(21,640 posts)and you can't "unsell" something lol