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Rainbow NewsRussian Parliament: Gays will face "control", "restraint on human rights" and "counteraction"
28 Jul. 2012
The Russian Parliament has painfully responded to the UN AIDS Commission's report that recommended to abandon the policy of legal prosecution of prostitution, homosexuality and drug usage. The Regions.Ru project has asked 10 deputies (either from the State Duma or the Federation's Council) about their opinion on the report. All deputies were irritated especially on the issue of liberalization of homosexuality (although it was officially decriminalized in 1993).
Sergey Zheleznyak, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (United Russia (UR), said that the UN's methods were not suitable for his country: "Homosexuality is a demographic dead-end, asocial phenomenon which, according to him, is needed to be eradicated via improvement of social and economic situation in Russia".
Vladimir Jabarov (UR), the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council's Committee on international affairs, has named these methods, offered by the UN, as "non-Christian" and added that "homosexuality, according to his opinion, was a dead state of the humanity due to impossibility to prolong the human genus. Moreover, same-sex relations are not accepted by any of the four official faiths in Russia". Ekaterina Lakhova, UR faction, (in the past was well known for her gay hate speeches) has named homosexuality as the "most dangerous challenge of the modern world" and promised to toughen the fight against this evil".
Valentina Petrenko, a member of the Federation Council's Committee on social policy, said she was not afraid to pass for a homophobic politician. She believes "the propaganda of that (homosexual) ideology is inadmissible but at the same time she has nothing against those LGBT people who are quiet and do not show themselves up".
For the record: the UN AIDS Commission was established under the initiative of the UN Secretary General Pan Ki Moon in 2010 and among its 15 members are former heads of states, prominent lawyers and activists of the HIV/AIDS struggle.
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