Most parents while they might accept a Gay child they dont bring them up thinking they will be Gay, A Father will always think his son will find a wife, have kids etc… I don’t see any benefit promoting a gay culture, while I respect Gay people, I don’t think society should bend over backward for them.. Why Gay people want labels on them is beyond me.

Alex the fact that you’re unwilling to show your face in your comment proves that you know that this opinion is backwards and hurtful. Any parent who TRULY loves their child will always accept them.

I’m assuming this ‘gay culture’ you speak is your simple-minded assumption that every gay person is someone who walks around half naked in a parade once a year? My brother is a consultant and his husband (married in Canada , though legally only a civil-partner in Ireland) is a doctor and don’t meet that narrow stereotype. While they don’t expect society to ‘bend over backwards for them’ they do expect equal rights in tax, inheritance and health care. At the moment under their civil partnership if my brother was in an accident and ended up in coma we would have to invite his husband into the room if doctors said only family were allowed. The benefits of being able to have freedom of speech and assembly aren’t about promoting any culture they allow people to highlight inequalities and try to make the world a better place for the next generation. Maybe though you could just try to expand your opinion and understanding of the world to join those of us in this generation?

I think – the best way is to turn off comments, that way you will never hear an opinion different from yours.

Am I not allowed my free speech now ??

Meant for Niall, of course.

Sorry Ronan. Russians only care about Russian rights. They don’t give a fuck about you or human rights.

Careful now!!!

How would embarrassing Russian people help the situation ? I spent 3 weeks in Russia this year and everyone I came in contact with view their government with contempt !!! The majority Russian people are as disgusted by these moves as we in the west are !!!

Ben, I’m glad to hear that. Lets see who is the next President then. Maybe you only meet the westernised Russians.

It’s all nonsense, you know nothing about Russia. 100 years of fascism? it’s just an insult our grandparents who destroyed Hitler. And he was not the first, remember Napoleon? Now, under this colourful equality flag we are getting gnostic anthropological unequally, new kind of fascism. So, it is an offence now to certain circles to be “not gay”. And it happens only to “bad countries” (such as Russia). Yes?

Ben I have been to Russia 16 times, I have never met any Russians that liked gays, blacks or jews. Even university professors state their contempt for such. Maybe that is why Russia is the last white nation to have any identity. All of you liberals in the west have sold your soul to political correctness.

William in all fairness who are we to judge Russian people on how their government acts ?? That being said, time has proved that Russia has often benefited from placing power in the hands of a ruling elite, usually one person. Many say it is all that would ever work in Russia. However my point is how is taking it out on the Russian people going to solve anything at all ? God knows are government is a disgrace and I don’t think you’d encourage the Germans to start embarrassing all Irish people would you ?

Oh and Preston, I wont deny there are some archaic ideas and opinions still prevalent is Russia but still we shouldn’t paint everyone with one brush. Things are changing…. just extremely slowly.

I Mean thumbs up lol

>I’ve read most of Alexander Solzhenitsyn works …

Stop over here, you have to explain nothing.

People are not “born drug addicts and murders” but individuals are born Gay. Nobody asked you to “love gays”, just not to discriminate against them.

“Russians have had no brainwashing”….that’s a laugh.

Heritage and culture are not an excuse for discrimination. Maybe you think heritage and culture might excuse burning witches at the stake? Heritage and culture lead to male circumcision, female genital mutilation, the suppression of women and many other evils.

There is only propaganda in your head. Nothing else. You know nothing about the things you trying to explain here. Let’s start from 100 millions – give me the source of your information. Whatever, when I hear Stalin, politbyuro, KBG, Gulag – I can just stop conversation. You know nothing about Russia and USSR and it’s people.

angryzes, well you tell us how many human beings the Communists killed? How many got a bullet in the neck, how many died in the Gulags (1,000,000?), how many died in government caused famines?

@William Grogan
You are another person disabled by propaganda. Communists killed people? You know how many people were killed by Catholics, Protestant, Democrats, Respublicans, Male, Female, etc ?

I know, I know. Communists are the main evil of this world! According to capitalist media of course …

Apart from that, all your questions are relevant to any big state. The country I was born in (USSR in seventies) was notihing like you describe now. Deal with it. We had space and nuclear programs, widespread geological research, leading science, free education, healthcare, cheap communal bills (1% of your income) etc, etc. People were happy and knew that their lives are stable and protected. And, btw, had a good laugh at the communist party and it’s leaders but respected and liked their country.

Catholics and the other groups having not been killing people in bulk for hundreds of years.

No one has murdered as many INNOCENT people as the Communists in the last century and not just in Russia. It’s not just the mass murders, but kidnappings, torture, imprisonment for nothing, and the total lack of personal freedom that existed in the USSR.

It’s funny you call it the capitalist media, there was no Communist “media”. Anyone can become a journalist or set up a newspaper in the west you don’t have to have capital and write more or less whatever they like.

Your space program was a joke in comparison to the USA’s and was mainly kept secret (The Russian’s have yet to land a probe on Mars). Nuclear weapons were based on the results of spying, your scientific research was nonexistent, almost nothing was discovered by Russian scientists in the 19th century, their only computer for years was a pirated version of an IBM 360.

After Chernobyl the health system in the USSR was so poor that children with Thyroid cancer did not have their diseased Thyroid glands fully removed because they hadn’t the money to pay for the medicines that they would have then needed instead they left in some of the tissue and hoped it wasn’t a cancerous bit. Several children died because of this procedure.

There was widespread famine. I remember reading once that most Russians eat food they grew themselves or was grown on their tiny private plots. Almost nothing came from the state farms. Communism is another and worse form of fascism and the world is a lot better off without it. Whatever the Russian people thought is irrelevant, they were brainwashed. Read Orwell’s 1984.

Correction: 20,000 more people have signed since I last checked!

Preston, you’re lucky you didn’t live in Nazi Germany where Gays were executed AND so were simpletons.

Very well said William.

Preston waits until thread is nearly over to come on with his hate filled drivel. Get a life Preston. How would you feel if you were told who to love? Mind your own business Preston. Love might be the only piece of heaven we get. When you find it you love, love, love.

PS Thanks for the link Adam.

Preston. Gay rights or marches don’t recruit. They won’t turn a straight man gay FGS. That is such a ridiculous thing to say. Absolute boloney. I refer you to William’s comment.

Agreed. Seriously Michael. Leave comment name up and comment blank even. Also if someone makes an unfounded accusation at someone, as has happened to me, I value my right to reply. Please…