How ridiculous, rude, childish and unproductive is this idea?!

So I hope that this example illustrates that I some countries simply go too far in their pro-homosexuality agenda. They should respect the law of the land in other countries and not imagine they know what's best for other countries.
Umm, seems to me that a certain Swede on this board was thoroughly happy to lecture OTHER COUNTRIES on how awful and backward it is to have just one official national language. (And the Latvians, as far as I know, weren't preparing to impose criminal fines on people who "promoted Russian to minors" -- they just didn't want to subsidize the Russian language.)

this "Russia-discriminates-against-gays" theme is a never-ending saga. They have yet to give a seriously disturbing example with actual testimony
"Disturbing" to whom? Carrying a sign like this on a public street can now, in theory*, get you a 5000-ruble fine throughout Russia (Photo is a couple years old, and AFAIK, the guy -- activist Nikolai Alekseev -- already got the same fine under the St. Petersburg law. Though I understand that foreign sympathizers chipped in with money, and he didn't have to pay out of his own pocket, at least:



I'd imagine that Russian gays consider it "seriously disturbing" that saying the phrase Я нормальный человек where children might overhear you is now banned propaganda...

*P.S. However, I understand the point that no one knows whether the new law will be actively enforced, and I agree that the Swedish gesture was rather stupid, and that calls to "boycott Sochi" are insane overreactions. (I'd note that the US had laws against consensual sodomy until 2003, but the very reason that it took so long to strike down these laws is that they were practically never enforced -- which meant there was no "legal standing" to challenge them.)