Demented Russian slave pen backs law banning homosexual 'propaganda'

Russia's lower house of parliament has given initial approval to a draft law banning homosexuality being promoted among children.

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If approved, the law would ban events promoting gay rights across Russia.

The lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, is expected to pass a proposed law aimed at stopping so-called gay propaganda.

The bill faces two more readings, after which it must be approved by the upper house and president Vladimir Putin before it becomes law.

The 388-1 vote in the first of three readings came hours after police detained more than 20 mostly young opponents who were staging a "kiss-in" protest outside the building the Duma.

The law makes it an offence to promote a homosexual lifestyle to minors in any way.

Similar measures have already been passed in at least nine Russian regions, including Saint Petersburg.

Under the national version of the anti-gay propaganda law, individuals will face fines of up to $160.

Gay rights advocacy groups are more concerned about fines for organisations, which could reach $16,000 per offence - enough to financially ruin many groups judged to have offended the law.

The bill's pro-Putin backers cast the vote as a fight for Russia's moral salvation.

"There is simply too much homosexual propaganda in the Russian Federation," the Duma's family affairs committee chair Yelena Mizulina said during the debate.

Homosexuality was only decriminalised in Russia after the end of the Soviet era but top officials continue to express homophobic views in public.

Russia's leaders repeatedly refer to gays in official language as "people of a non-traditional sexual orientation".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-26/russia-backs-law-banning-homosexual-propaganda/4485354

Demented Russian slave pen backs law banning homosexual 'propaganda'

Demented Russian slave pen backs law banning homosexual 'propaganda'

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