Russian politician denounces Apple’s U2 album gift as ‘gay propaganda’
A Russian Duma deputy has asked Russia’s attorney general to investigate Apple for distributing “gay propaganda” to minors.
Alexander Starovoitov, a member of the rightwing LDPR party, says Apple spammed youths with illegal content when it released U2’s latest album, Songs of Innocence, to more than 500 million iTunes customers worldwide in September 2014.
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The album cover in question features the band’s drummer, Larry Mullen Jr, embracing his 18-year-old son, Elvis, shirtless. The image was taken by photographer Glen Luchford, and the group says it is a visual metaphor for the album and its theme of “how holding on to your own innocence is a lot harder than holding on to someone else’s”.
But Starovoitov disagrees. He says the U2 album art promotes sex between men, and the newspaper Izvestia, known for its pro-Kremlin reporting, quotes Evgeny Tonky, a lawyer, who says he’s ready to sue Apple for compensation for moral damages on behalf of his own son.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/russia-politician-denounces-apple-u2-album-gift-gay-propaganda
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I seriously dread how the fundies are going to react if SCOTUS overturns the marriage laws. I predict they will go completely apeshit, more so than usual. 
That's dumb.
...the party's main policy stands as nationalism and a focus in law and order.
The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia aims for "a revival of Russia as a great power." It has opposed both communism and the "wild" capitalism that resulted from Russia's reforms. It favours a mixed economy with private ownership but with a strong management role reserved for the state. In foreign policy, the party places a strong emphasis on "civilizations." It has supported the restoration of Russia with its "natural borders" (which the party believes include Belarus, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics). It sees the unification of Russia and Belarus as a first step in the restoration. The LDPR regards the United States and the Western civilization as the main external threat to Russia.
The party's organization is almost entirely centered on its charismatic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDPR_%28political_party%29#PlatformZhirinovsky also advocated for all Chinese and Japanese to be deported from the Russian Far East. During his 1992 visit to the United States, Zhirinovsky called on television "for the preservation of the white race" and warned that the white Americans were in danger of turning their country over to black and Hispanic people. Zhirinovsky has expressed admiration for the 1996 United States presidential election contender Pat Buchanan ...
"Although nominally part of the Russian opposition, he is widely seen as a servant of Kremlin policy, used to float radical opinions to test public reaction."
Zhirinovsky is well known for his boasts pertaining to other countries, having expressed a desire to reunite countries of the ex-Soviet "near abroad" with Russia to within the Russia's borders of 1900 (including Finland and Poland). He has advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become "a great place to put the Ukrainians"
At a press conference in April, when asked whether Russians should reciprocate the Ukrainian sex strike, he replied that all Ukrainian women were "nymphomaniacs" like the journalist who had asked the question, Stella Dubovitskaya. He then ordered two of his aides to "violently rape" the pregnant journalist for Rossiya Segodnya, who had to be briefly hospitalised for shock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky#Views
Militarism, nationalism, law-and-order, homophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny. I would say that fascist is a mild term to use about the LPDR and Zhirinovsky.
All these years of fandom, and I had no idea Larry was a secret agent of the gay freemasons.