American Religious Right and Russian Orthodox Leaders are Colluding in Putin’s Persecution of Gays

[SecularMotion]

With the disgusting acquiescence of the Russian Orthodox bishops, Vladimir Putin has accomplished what Sarah Palin, Franklin Graham and Michele Bachmann could only dream of doing in America. He’s made it okay to persecute gay people people in Russia. As Adam Lee notes, Putin has built his power base of corruption and terror with the help of the religious and conservative elements of his society. He’s become expert at courting the alliance of the Russian Orthodox Church. And here in America conservatives are lining up to defend Putin.

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A bill now under consideration would take away children (both adopted and biological) from gay and lesbian parents. With the Russian Church, parliament and Putin saying that LGBT people aren’t fully human, homophobes in Russia are emboldened. The torture and murder of gay people, by gangs of skinheads assaulting gay-rights protestors in public, with the police looking on,is happening. And American evangelical Christians think this is all great. So, apparently judging by their silence, do American Orthodox church leaders.

NOW American evangelical and Roman Catholic right-wing haters are climbing aboard the Russian hate parade .As cited by Adam Lee we find that–

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The World Congress of Families, a Christian-right group based in Illinois, plans to hold its 2014 annual conference at the Kremlin in a show of support for the Russian laws. The WCF website says that Russia, “with its historic commitment to deep spirituality and morality, can be a hope for the natural family supporters from all over the world.” A WCF spokesman, Larry Jacobs, added that “Russia could be a great ally for conservatives” and cheered its anti-gay laws as a “great idea”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2013/09/american-religious-right-and-russian-orthodox-leaders-are-colluding-in-putins-persecution-of-gay-people/

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Wherever there's hatred of gay people in the world,

American evangelicals are either behind it or they're egging it on. I hope more Christians begin to stand against their bigotry.

[Kolesar]

2. Fundies allied with the patron of the Iranian mullahs

I thought they hated Moslems.
I thought they hated Catholics!

[rug]

3. That's interesting. Up until recently, their efforts were focused on Uganda and Central Africa.

[Corey]

4. Conservative Christians Are Just Plain Evil

Conservative Christians are the most evil people. Lets take a look at a the last 400+ yrs. Short, simple, and to the point. I will describe the behavior of the Conservative Christian movement.

Lets begin:

Christopher Columbus, Christian, cut the hands off of Natives if they didnt bring him enough gold, bragged about how easy it was to make them into slaves and offered up groups of Natives to be gang raped.

Puritans, Christian, fled their homeland so they could practice their religion their way, this is understandable, however, Quakers were bared from having government jobs, forced to fund the Puritan's churches even though they didn't attend, some were even driven out of the colony, some were even lynched.

In fact, many of the first 13 states were created by those who fled or were driven out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of the theocracy the Puritans were pushing.

Even Benjamin Franklin, from what I understand left Massachusetts, one reason being the religious intolerance.

Besides not allowing any other religion, Joseph Smith, the creator of Mormonism, was killed by these people, from what I understand, a group raided the jail he was locked up in, and, like the mob run witch trials, they mob murdered him.

When blacks wanted equal rights both during the "Civil Right" movement with MLK and years prior when slaves wanted freedom, the conservative Christians of the time, used the bible to back up their argument that even God believe blacks were inferior.

The same thing happened when woman wanted more rights, when immigrants wanted more rights, when the disabled wanted more rights, when Veterans, the elderly and children wanted more rights.

All the way up to today, with gays getting some equal rights, the Conservative Christian movement has been front in center making themselves out to be the victims, as usual, when any minority they were once allowed to abuse, kill, and oppress are treated more equal than they once were.

You can even take the words of Hitler, and replace the word "Jew" with the name of whatever group is being oppressed at whatever time in US history, and it will sound just like a conservative Christian had written it.

Why not do some research, and just for fun do that, replace "Jew" with, "Muslim", "Gay", "Atheist" etc.

There is plenty of data to back-up what I say, it is called "Facts". Unfortunately, even today, this year, 2013, conservative Christians are trying to "white wash" history by doing things like trying to get Thomas Jefferson out of school books, so the whole "separation of church and state" debate would no longer be. There have been attempts to rename "slavery" into some economic-commerce movement.

Conservative Christians ARE the enemy of Americans and the World.