31. Meanwhile, Russian lawmakers passed a bill barring same-sex foreign couples from adopting Russian children.
The author is using the gay bashing to support letting gay Americans adopt Russian kids. That's way wrong! Russia is protecting those kids and they should protect them!
Gay couple accused of sexually abusing adopted Russian boy for years — RT News
Another adopted Russian boy beaten to death in US — RT USA

I support the ban on USA adoptions of Russian kids 100%.
I also support the Russian Gay Progaganda law. There is no reason to parade again if they already know what happens when they do that.

Anyway, all those things are Russian issues for Russia to decide about and the rest of the world should not interfere. Our country already interferes way too much and it doesn't help anybody except America.
I don't get why any country wants to be like America. Tons of horrible things are happening in our country.

Back to Snowden. Yeah, we had a huge cookout at the lake today and I didn't see the news till we got home. So, Snowden will still have to wait longer. But he stayed there that long and didn't have to change his clothes? That's freedom!

It isn't just gay parents who abuse kids in the United States. There was a Russian boy adopted by right wing Christian parents as well. They didn't like him, so they sent him home to Moscow on a plane, all by himself. The issue of adopting Russian kids is a complex one, but it's unfair to target ONLY gay parents. In my personal experience, some of the kids from gay families (and yeah, I happen to know some) turned out better adjusted than some of the kids from extremely religious homes, which believe in things like "spare the rod and spoil the child" (ie, beat your child to drive out the "spirit of satan"). You can argue that with me if you want, but my uncle was a televangelist, I was raised in a strict religious home, and I can tell you some personal stories about Christian, heterosexual families that would freak you completely out.

Regarding the "gay propaganda" laws - I'm sorry you support laws which make it a crime for gay couples to kiss in public, or for anyone to even discuss the issue of gay rights. All this is doing is forcing the issue underground again, rather than making any significant change. Sweeping things under the rug is never a real solution. Things will only fester and get worse, and more people will be beaten, or drink themselves to death (like my gay friend in Peterburg is doing) or perhaps worse - PRETEND to be "straight," get married, have a family, and then cheat on them with anonymous gay strangers, like right wing, Christian politicians in the US are caught doing on an almost daily basis.

It isn't about anyone interfering. I'm not going to fly to Russia tomorrow and hand out rainbow flags to anyone. But I certainly do not actively SUPPORT state-sponsored suppression of minorities, nor do I support it when a blind eye is turned to the people who beat, maim or kill others just because their sexuality makes others uncomfortable.

America has plenty of its own problems. You are welcome to read my posts on this site and you will see me detail what they are just as passionately as I am talking about this. But gay rights, women's rights, civil rights - those are important issues which will continually need to be fought for. I will fight the good fight in America. As far as Russia goes, if I am going to be arrested in Russia for saying any of the things I said here (and one Dutch couple already WAS arrested for speaking out in favor of gay rights while visiting Russia), then I will not be going to Russia any time soon. I have very good friends who are gay. They stood by me when the self-righteous, judgmental and mean-spirited, abusive Christian people did not.

I cry for my friend in St. Petersburg, who is forced to live in a closet and cannot be who he was born to be. And I cry for all the others like him, in Russia and every other country where they suffer.