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Fearless

(18,421 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 10:58 AM Feb 2014

Russia Bans ALL Adoptions to Nations Where LGBT People Can Marry!

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has just signed a new decree banning all same-sex or unmarried opposite-sex couples from adopting children, and banning adoptions by foreigners if the Russian children will live in countries where same-sex marriage is legal.

The timing seems a flagrant show of homophobia during the middle of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, given all the international condemnation of Russia’s anti-gay laws.

The decree is an amendment that reiterates a law signed by Vladimir Putin last year, shortly after the Russian President signed his infamous “homosexual propaganda” law.

“The decree reiterates a ban on adoptions by same-sex couples who are in unions ‘recognized as marriages and registered in accordance with the law of a country where such marriages are permitted.’ It also bans adoptions by ‘nationals of such countries who are not married,’” the Wall Street Journal reports.

The decree may simply be red meat for the masses. As The New Civil Rights Movement reported yesterday, almost three-fourths of Russian find homosexuality “morally unacceptable.” Russian lawmakers were slated to debate this week a bill that would remove children from households where at least one parent is gay. But that legislation was postponed because of the Olympics.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/russia-imposes-new-gay-adoption-ban/politics/2014/02/13/83144#.UvzbT3mKnLQ

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Fuck him and his bigoted supporters!

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Russia Bans ALL Adoptions to Nations Where LGBT People Can Marry! (Original Post) Fearless Feb 2014 OP
I guess they are saying, don't go west young man snooper2 Feb 2014 #1
You don't say?! Behind the Aegis Feb 2014 #2
Looks like there's a new Cold (Civil Rights) War. How sad for all those children and the wonderful okaawhatever Feb 2014 #3
Why do you want to restart the Cold War!? Adrahil Feb 2014 #4
Because conditions in Russian orphanages are just so wonderful... N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2014 #5
Sounds like Putin is lashing out for getting slammed riderinthestorm Feb 2014 #6

okaawhatever

(9,461 posts)
3. Looks like there's a new Cold (Civil Rights) War. How sad for all those children and the wonderful
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 03:14 PM
Feb 2014

families who won't be able to share their love.

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
6. Sounds like Putin is lashing out for getting slammed
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 03:29 PM
Feb 2014

Thereby demonstrating exactly how to take international disgust about the homophobia and make himself into even more of a pariah.

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