Russia, the Federation of Feels

**kuronosan** · 2013-06-12 11:43

Russia doing something to suppress homosexuality (Russia is extremely religiously conservative) is never going to make the rounds on news here, especially when FOX so righteously fights the anti-gay battles.

**ronin sparthos** · 2013-06-12 11:45

Originally Posted by Ksandra

You assume that the average American is going to even hear about this. I'm at my in-laws atm, and fox news has basically been NSA crap 24/7

The first mistake was FOX and the second was thinking that FOX would champion gay rights.

Maybe MSNBC will cover this considering their leanings but I tossed in the some regarding people who read not listen to news.

**Plow** · 2013-06-12 12:22

Originally Posted by kuronosan

Russia doing something to suppress homosexuality (Russia is extremely religiously conservative) is never going to make the rounds on news here, especially when FOX so righteously fights the anti-gay battles.

Russia is not extremely religiously conservative, just a bunch of the people currently in power.

Almost exact same amount of atheist/agnostic as russian orthodox christians overall, and there's like no other christians there.

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

The first mistake was FOX and the second was thinking that FOX would champion gay rights.

Maybe MSNBC will cover this considering their leanings but I tossed in the some regarding people who read not listen to news.

maddow will for sure

**kuronosan** · 2013-06-12 13:17

Are you Russian?

**Dimmauk** · 2013-06-12 13:26

Im sure the all those mail bought Russian brides sold themselves cause the gays wouldnt give them babies.

**thetruepandagod** · 2013-06-12 15:46

Best Russia?

**Ashmada** · 2013-06-12 16:46

Originally Posted by kuronosan

Russia doing something to suppress homosexuality (Russia is extremely religiously conservative) is never going to make the rounds on news here, especially when FOX so righteously fights the anti-gay battles.

They could spin this as an heroic victory in the struggle against heatens, perverts and heatenperverts that seek to undermine our little 6000yo world's god-given morality!

Only problem with that angle, I suppose, is that they probably use "Russia" as shorthand for "communism" even now, so maybe not.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-06-13 22:14

fuck I'm bored

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2013-06-13 23:55

must be left-handed

**Ksandra** · 2013-06-14 00:03

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

The first mistake was FOX and the second was thinking that FOX would champion gay rights.

Maybe MSNBC will cover this considering their leanings but I tossed in the some regarding people who read not listen to news.

not to nitpick, but I doubt those that watch msnbc need that cautionary tale you spoke of. Who else needs to hear this story for learning besides those that watch things like fox?

**Andalusian girls** · 2013-06-14 20:36

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

Hopefully some Americans take this news as a cautionary tale on what happens when power consolidators and conservative leaders get the reins of power.

thankfully there is no precedent in Russian history for what happens when power consolidators and radical liberal leaders get the reins of power

**Andalusian girls** · 2013-06-14 20:38

Originally Posted by Plow

308-2? Really?

What the fuck?

it's called tyranny

someone ought to kill that son of a bitch

**kuronosan** · 2013-06-14 23:36

It's really no different than conservatism here, it's just more prevalent. Orthodox religion is much the same as Baptists here where anything Jesus hates, his followers hate.

**Andalusian girls** · 2013-06-14 23:40

except Jesus didn't hate too much

**Andalusian girls** · 2013-06-14 23:41

he more kinda loved everyone

**Andalusian girls** · 2013-06-14 23:41

someone should tell the Baptists

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2013-06-15 01:00

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**kuronosan** · 2013-06-15 01:12

Originally Posted by Andalusian girls

someone should tell the Baptists

Yea, it's worked really well here with Westboro.

**Ashmada** · 2013-06-18 11:08

Originally Posted by Andalusian girls

he more kinda loved everyone

Say what you will about the christian fundies, but they're following their Mithra-ersatz a lot more faithfully* than any "love thy neighbour (ps: nope, I haven't read the whole thing - there's like hundreds of pages in there!)" christians.

*sorry.

**Correction** · 2013-07-22 19:21

Six weeks later...

Four Dutch tourists have been jailed under Russia's "gay propaganda" law after they were suspected of promoting homosexuality to children.

Russian LGBT Network was the first to report the tourists had been jailed Sunday. Russia's Gazeta later reported the four suspects were with the LGBT-Groningen organization.

According to a Huffington Post translation of the report, the tourists arrived in Murmansk in mid-July to make a film about the city and the life of gay community there. While conducting a seminar with local LGBT group Center Maximum on Sunday, the police came in and arrested group chairman Kris van der Veen, as well as a camerawoman, a sound technician and a female student. Members of Center Maximum were also arrested.

The police were reportedly looking for minors at the meeting, according to Gazeta, but found none. They did, however, discover a 17-year-old in the film footage. The teen had told the crew he was 18 years old at the time of his interview, according to the report. Police were able to keep the Dutch tourists under the "homosexual propaganda" law.

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