Hateful anti-gay laws passed in Russia

So is anyone still in favor of boycotting the Olympics in Sochi?

Putin offers assurances on gay rights

 

Probably not a boycott.

Putin's assurances are not worth two shovels of warm horseshit.

Yesterday it was reported that a man held a sign reading something like being gay is natural, beating and killing gays is a crime. He has been arrested for "homosexual propaganda".

The IOC in a display of true courage has said gay people can just stay in the closet. You know, don't introduce your spouse or hug him/her. Lie and lie and lie and lie. Because that is the Olympic spirit. The IOC also said the law is not anti-gay because straight people can also be arrested for supporting gay rights. Oh.

 

According to the link this is basically what the law is for:

The purpose of the law appears to be to make it illegal to expose to minors that homosexual relationships are normal or attractive.

 

The men in crandcs avatar look pretty damn attractive to me, normal is open to interpretation though

 

hmmm, with all due respect, I would have to believe that normal, or the norm in the matter, is not open to interprtation..if gay were the norm, then the human race would have become extinct long ago.

 

Jesse Owens would take up issue with us boycotting the Russian Olympics over the anti-gay laws in Russia.

He was defiant in 1936, and he became a hero. That approach seems much better than cowering out. His approach took much more courage than the suggestions I've seen here.

 

Its normal that some people are gay, if there were no gay people, that would be abnormal, no?

 

Like I said, the word is open to Interpretation

 

And it is deliberately so loosely written that just to say gay people should have rights, anywhere in public, constitutes "exposing a minor". Even to say let's discuss whether gay people should have rights constitutes exposing a minor.

Glad you like my avi but I'll probably change it soon.

 

Imagine what it was like in 1936 for the black athletes attending the Berlin Olympics. Think it's difficult to not hug/kiss/hang with your same-sex partner? Pretty difficult to hide the color of your skin.

 

ok, ok, ok got ya..so deviations or abnormaliies are expected, thus "normal", fair enough

it does seem a bit rough to toss gay in the same bin as psycopaths, mentaly retarded, dwarfs etc etc..but in doing so, it does make a strong case for protective laws..