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Zephie

(1,363 posts)
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 08:07 PM Mar 2013

Russian Fundamentalists Sue US, Want Alaska Back (Because of Marriage Equality)

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 Alaska’s 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.

Obama’s alleged plans to legalize the “so-called same-sex marriage” threaten the freedom of religion of Alaska’s 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 year’s instruction for believers published after punk band Pussy Riot’s 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 state’s total population of 730,000, the BBC said in 2010, adding that the faith was the main legacy of Russia’s 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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Russian Fundamentalists Sue US, Want Alaska Back (Because of Marriage Equality) (Original Post) Zephie Mar 2013 OP
We don't have a monopoly on teh stoopid. nt Xipe Totec Mar 2013 #1
"their religion, which allows no tolerance for sin." ? love_katz Mar 2013 #2
Maybe they should listen to Sarah Palin AnnieBW Mar 2013 #3
maybe if they took palin.... dembotoz Mar 2013 #5
just another Westboro Takket Mar 2013 #4

love_katz

(2,584 posts)
2. "their religion, which allows no tolerance for sin." ?
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 09:27 PM
Mar 2013

Typical fundy fanatic idiots, thinking no one else has any right to their beliefs.

AnnieBW

(10,465 posts)
3. Maybe they should listen to Sarah Palin
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 11:17 PM
Mar 2013

Before they decide if they want Alaska back. I mean, they can see her house from Russia!

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