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In reply to the discussion: While You’re Bashing Russia for its Homophobic Laws, Remember… [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)in 2004 for instance. Even the Log Cabin Republicans, some of the worst enablers in the history of the fight for equality for any group, refused to endorse the incumbent President of their Party he was so bad on LGBT rights and equality. That's how bad our President was from 2001-2009 on gay rights.
Our federal government is in the middle of dismantling laws that discriminate against the LGBT community. To your point, we still suck. If we didn't I wouldn't bother to spend time on it during my show, but to quote Martin Luther King Jr., from where we are we can see the promised land.
In Russia, all the LGBT community can see is a future of increasing hate and repression. We'll be lucky if we can turn that ship around before widespread killing starts happening.