St Petersburg lawmakers consider fines for “gay propaganda”

[The Philosopher]

from Pink News

The draft law introduces fines for what it terms the “propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, to minors” and “propaganda of paedophilia”.

Fines range from a minimum of 1,000 roubles (£20) for an individual to 50,000 (£1,000) for a business.

Polina Savchenko, General manager of LGBT organization Coming Out, Russia told LGBT Asylum News: “By combining homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality into one law with sexual crimes against minors, members of the Legislative Assembly indulge in gross manipulations of public opinion. Their goal – to pass an anti-democratic law, directed at severely limiting human rights in St. Petersburg.

“In the name of ‘public interest’, members of the Legislative Assembly decided to ignore the Federal law, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention for Human Rights, Council of Europe Recommendations and other decrees by international organizations, of which Russia is a member. However, no public discussions were held.

“It is also obvious that adoption of this law violates interests and rights of minors. Russia leads the world in the number of teenage suicides, and ignoring the issues of sexual orientation and gender identity can lead to tragic consequences.”

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. There they go again...

attempting to conflate homosexuality with pedophilia. The religious right in this country approves of shit like this.

[xchrom]

2. Fuck. Nt

[HopeHoops]

3. Can we just send our GOP homophobes over there? They've got PLENTY of "gay propadanda".

Of course, theirs is all negative and completely wrong, but it should still be illegal under that law.

*GASP* - Then what would the GOP do for the presidential election clown show?

[saras]

4. They're going to have to abandon science and go back to Lysenko

[reggie the dog]

8. no, the propaganda will be illegal, teaching teens that gayness

is normal sexuality is backed by science and therefor NOT PROPAGANDA!

[bullwinkle428]

5. I thought you were talking about Florida when I read the headline,

and the saddest part is that I wasn't all that surprised by that thought.

[Initech]

6. God damn them!

[reggie the dog]

7. this only bans propaganda, so just teaching kids about gay sex in

sex ed class would still be legal as would passing out info about human sexuality. to be convicted of putting out propaganda one would have to be proven to be lying and for hiding any debate surrounding the issue from those being taught about it.

seeing as teaching teens that gayness is normal sexuality is accepted by the scientific community this law will actually end up being used against homophobes who put out propaganda like saying that "gays will go to hell" which is not supported by science and is simply the propagation of a myth being passed off as truth (propaganda).

look for orthodox churches to be the first organizations fined due to their anti gay stance and anti gay (anti science) propaganda.