Media howl as Russia protects its children from gay propaganda
The whole media establishment is up in arms about Russia ’s new law that prohibits the promotion of homosexuality, and other deviant sexual behaviors among minors . Reuters, AP, New York Times , BBC , have all complained about the law as a form of discrimination against gays, but this appears to be more hyperbole than anything else. If you believed the NY Times you’d think the Russians had decided to send every homosexual in Russia to the Gulags . But the Russian law , which is expected to soon be passed by the Senate and signed by Putin, effectively acts as a tax on public displays of affection by homosexuals. Here is how even the NY Times summarizes the law: Without defining “nontraditional,” the new bill bans making available to children information “intended to form in a minor a nontraditional sexual foundation.” It also prohibits portraying “the attractiveness” of such relations and bans asserting “the social equivalence of traditional and nontraditional