How the Republican right found allies in Russia

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Growing up in the 1980s, Brian Brown was taught to think of the communist Soviet Union as a dark and evil place.

But Brown, a leading opponent of same-sex marriage, said that in the past few years he has started meeting Russians at conferences on family issues and finding many kindred spirits.

Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has visited Moscow four times in four years, including a 2013 trip during which he testified before the Duma as Russia adopted a series of anti-gay laws.

“What I realized was that there was a great change happening in the former Soviet Union,” he said. “There was a real push to re-instill Christian values in the public square.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_russiagop-735pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ec5a2cde5f4b

[octoberlib]

1. I've been in the comments section of this article

for a couple hours. Republicans are getting thrashed.

[spanone]

2. rightfully so.

[L. Coyote]

3. Correct answer, the Russians brought them millions and millions in laundered mobster money.

[octoberlib]

4. I said that in one of my comments. The Russian trolls

have finally woken up and are invading , though.