St Pete Against Gays

From Moscow Times:
"St. Petersburg Enacts Limits on Gays"

Local lawmakers in St. Petersburg, on a third and final reading, passed a controversial law Wednesday that introduces fines for promoting gay and lesbian relationships in the presence of minors and advocating pedophilia, Interfax reported.

Critics say the law effectively bans gay-pride parades and other public displays or discussion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender sexual orientations. The law stipulates a 5,000 ruble ($170) fine for individual violators, a 50,000 ruble fine for officials and up to 500,000 rubles from legal entities that break the law. The legislation has provoked outcry from gay-rights advocates in Russia and around the world, even while other city legislatures in Russia announced they would consider adopting similar measures.

^ Talk about a step in the wrong direction. When most civilized countries around the world are giving homosexuals equal rights, civil partnerships and even marriages it seems there are still some (in this case Saint Petersburg, Russia) that want to go back to the old days of discrimination. Regardless, if you are for gay marriage or not it should be a world-wide view and law that you can't discriminate against someone gay. St Petersburg is doing just that. I don't know what the government officials there are so afraid of - maybe they are in the closet and afraid of being found out or they are afraid they could be turned gay. Either way it is a pretty dumb law. Hopefully, it will be over-turned. ^

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/st-petersburg-enacts-limits-on-gays/453877.html