Russian Homophobia
The news was filled today with the vote in the democratic gulag called the Kremlin that all but one vote was caste to bring into law restrictions on minorities which will impact the gay and lesbian community. A deeply conservative move backed and promoted by the Russian Orthodox Church.
We shouldn’t be surprised.
When the Berlin wall came down one of the recurrent themes of the commentators on the newly emerging countries was that they were stuck with pre-second-world war value systems. Still infected with anti-semitic leanings, still male dominated and they broke down into the ‘strong man’ leaders who had been the bullies of the communist regime hiding out in the secret police.
Russia will pull out the doldrums but it will take a while and while it does so the church will make people’s lives hell because that is what the narrow thinking of biblical bigots always does. Enlightenment is not about facts and figures and the sudden inrush of scientific illumination, but the understanding that compassion glues society together more strongly that religion. That two men holding hands in public are not a threat any more than anal sex with a woman in partially a homosexual act.
There are at least twenty gender differentiations in the species. You can’t vote any away.
Russian Homophobia
25 Jan 2013 by Daniel
A deeply conservative move backed and promoted by the Russian Orthodox Church. We shouldn't be surprised. When the Berlin wall came down one of the recurrent themes of the commentators on the newly emerging countries was that they ...
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