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And now they are using the widely discredited anti-gay Regnerus study, paid for and commissioned by the extreme right in the US.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/russia-to-debate-taking-children-away-from-lgbt-parents
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Alexei Zhuravlyov, the far-right lawmaker who authored the bill, told the Russian news website Slon that courts would look for clear signs of homosexuality when deciding whether to strip parents of custody. Zhuravlyov admitted that the law would only work if information about a parents sexual orientation wound up in some sort of public domain. Appearing to allude to the common practice of gay Russians entering into straight marriages, Zhuravlyov said: If someone hides his orientation and skulks around basements, then thats his problem, let him remain one-on-one with that sin. It doesnt affect society much, he added. Law enforcement would establish a parents sexuality if necessary, he said. Widespread homophobia and incomprehension often prompt gay Russians, closeted and not, to enter into straight marriages and start families.
Zhuravlyov estimates that just between five and seven percent of Russians are gay, and about a third of that number - between 2.3 and 3.3. million people - have children. Zhuravlyovs bill would also extend to single gay parents. Russias run-down orphanages already hold hundreds of thousands of children, many of whose parents are alive but unfit to parent.
A homosexualist shouldnt bring up a child. He perverts it. He harms him a lot more than if he were in a childrens home, Zhuravlyov said. As evidence, Zhuravlyovs bill cites a study by Mark Regnerus, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, which argued that children of gay parents were as much as a third more likely to be gay than children of straight parents, and at greater risk of suicide, sexually transmitted disease, unemployment, and cheating on their partners. Regnerus study has been widely discredited, but Zhuravlyov wrote that it had been carefully checked by independent experts and raises no doubts.
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043
On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust and in no small part due to the tireless efforts of Lemkin himself, the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This convention establishes "genocide as an international crime, which signatory nations undertake to prevent and punish. It defines genocide as:
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)FreeState
(10,572 posts)Its like watching a train wreck about to happen but everyone is to busy focusing on everything else.
Behind the Aegis
(53,962 posts)We know the world did jack shit when it was the Jews, think anyone will care/do anything now that it is gays? This has been a creeping process, and at this rate, it might not be long before we see Kristalnacht Russian-style.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)FreeState
(10,572 posts)and it seems the anti-gays have taken NOMs play book* and are pitting the two against each other too.
(NOM has been doing this with the LGBT and black populations for several years in the US)
Behind the Aegis
(53,962 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,962 posts)It is time, though, for another round of pogroms. It isn't like the Nazis didn't do a number on gays (see my avatar). We have people killing gays in Uganda, wackos in this country claiming Jews are responsible for creating gays to bring down the "white man" (see the video in the V&M group), and countries refusing to include sexual orientation in universal human rights. Then again, one only needs to look here to see some staggering homophobia and transphobia to understand, this isn't a problem relegated to Russia. Personally, I am glad President Obama met with LGBT rights activists in Russia; let them know, the US is watching.
LostOne4Ever
(9,289 posts)It boarders on cartoonish super villiany. Yet, its actually happening and is anything BUT funny.
And the Olympics are going to celebrate this country on its slow march to committing yet another genocide against LGBT community?
These people are inhuman.
Rex
(65,616 posts)do these kinds of things. Of course our RWing shitheads agree with them so much that Russia wants to make policy over their ideas. Our RWing shitheads would like America to be more like Russia...really speaks volumes there.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)over here to school OUR Congress? Fuck that shit. And listen to RT and Izvestia on Syria? Come on.