Russian sports official puts Nazis, gays in same category

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By David Wharton
August 13, 2013, 8:58 a.m.
There isn't much chance the uproar over Russia's new anti-gay law will die down before the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Not if Russian officials keep stoking the flames.

In an interview with World Football Insider, the country's World Cup chief chose some interesting words to defend the legislation, which bans "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations."

Among other things, Alexey Sorokin put gays in the same category as Nazis.

“The Olympics and World Cup are not a stage for various views ...," he told the Internet publication. "Not for Nazis, not for any other ways of life."

Sorokin was also quoted as saying: "Would you like a World Cup where naked people are running around displaying their homosexuality? The answer to that is quite obvious."

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[William769]

1. Un fucking believable!

Pot meet kettle.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. It's time to boycott.

The narrative coming out of Russia is extremely troubling.

[ZombieHorde]

3. Disturbing.

Sorokin was also quoted as saying: "Would you like a World Cup where naked people are running around displaying their homosexuality? The answer to that is quite obvious."

That would be a hell of a lot better than what is happening now.

[theHandpuppet]

9. Beats brown shirts, jackboots and batons

It sounds as if Sorokin was describing a fantasy of his, doesn't it?

[dbackjon]

4. Olympics and World Cup need to be moved.

2022 World Cup in Qatar as well.

[ablamj]

5. Yes

"Would you like a World Cup where naked people are running around displaying their homosexuality? The answer to that is quite obvious."

[theHandpuppet]

6. Reminds me of this article...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/janet-mefferd-anti-gay-activists-jews-nazi-germany_n_3063714.html

Janet Mefferd, Conservative Host, Says Anti-Gay Activists Will Be Treated Like 'Jews in Nazi Germany'
The Huffington Post
By Meredith Bennett-Smith Posted: 04/12/2013 9:01 am EDT

A conservative radio show host with a penchant for making controversial statements predicted that anti-gay activists will one day be treated similar to how the Jews were treated during the Holocaust.

Janet Mefferd, a Christian syndicated radio show host, made the comparison in a Facebook post Wednesday morning. Mefferd posted a link to a Fox News piece referencing Gross Pointe South High School's cancellation of a planned speech by Rick Santorum. It remains unclear why exactly the speech was canceled, though some speculate it was because of the politician's stance against gay marriage. (The appearance has since been rescheduled.)

On Facebook, Mefferd wrote that she could see America moving "toward a day when every Christian who supports real marriage might be made to wear a yellow patch on the sleeve, a "badge of shame" to identify us as 'anti-gay haters.' Kind of like the Jews in Nazi Germany...."

[LostOne4Ever]

8. I guess that shock jock

Doesn't realize that homosexuals were forced to wear pink triangles and were executed in the holocaust as well.

That or he does not care.

I can't understand these people. I really can't. Not one bit.

[LostOne4Ever]

7. It just gets worse and worse doesn't it

Comparing homosexuals with the people who burned homosexuals in ovens?

Do these bigots have no shame what so ever?

[RKP5637]

11. Their minds are clouded with hatred, they have to have something to target and to

hate. If one were able to do a psychological profile on some of these jerks the results would be quite startling. Bigotry and Greed IMO are two of the most dangerous forces on this ball of spinning dirt quarantined to this segment of the universe.

[RKP5637]

10. The shit floating at the top needs to be cleaned up! n/t