Moscow court upholds ban on ‘gay pride’ marches for next hundred years
June 12, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Moscow’s City Court has confirmed a lower court decision permitting the denial of a request for permits for “gay pride” marches for the next hundred years, according to Russian and international media sources. The decision came as a result of a legal tactic by Russian homosexual activists , who asked for a century’s worth of permits using a loophole in the law that places no time limit on such requests. Activists say they were seeking to provoke a denial of all the permits so that they could file a complaint of “discrimination” in the European Court of Human Rights . They asked for permits from March 2012 through May 2112, amounting to a total of 102. Moscow authorities did not issue a decision, but simply sent a letter to the activists outlining the proper procedure for making such requests. The activists, led by Nikolay Alexeyev , pushed their case based on the 15-day time limit for a response required by law. However, a city district co