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Russia To Debate Taking Children Away From LGBT Parents
Cross posted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023603279
Russia To Debate Taking Children Away From LGBT Parents
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
Russia’s parliament is to debate a bill that would strip LGBT parents of custody if they are found to be “promoting non-traditional relations” to their own children.
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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 parent’s 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 that’s his problem, let him remain one-on-one with that sin. It doesn’t affect society much,” he added. Law enforcement would establish a parent’s 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. Zhuravlyov’s bill would also extend to single gay parents. Russia’s run-down orphanages already hold hundreds of thousands of children, many of whose parents are alive but unfit to parent.
“A homosexualist shouldn’t bring up a child. He perverts it. He harms him a lot more than if he were in a children’s home,” Zhuravlyov said. As evidence, Zhuravlyov’s 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.”
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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 parent’s 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 that’s his problem, let him remain one-on-one with that sin. It doesn’t affect society much,” he added. Law enforcement would establish a parent’s 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. Zhuravlyov’s bill would also extend to single gay parents. Russia’s run-down orphanages already hold hundreds of thousands of children, many of whose parents are alive but unfit to parent.
“A homosexualist shouldn’t bring up a child. He perverts it. He harms him a lot more than if he were in a children’s home,” Zhuravlyov said. As evidence, Zhuravlyov’s 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
THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE
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.
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.
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