Quote Originally Posted by UhOhXplode View Post
I think the Winter Olympics will still be in Sochi! David Cameron rejected the stupid idea!
David Cameron rejects Stephen Fry's call for a ban on Russia hosting the Winter Olympics - Home News - UK - The Independent

Btw, it's not President Putin. I mean, what is a democracy? It means that the majority wins. The majority of the Russian people didn't want to have to deal with gay sex parad4es. So even if there wasn't a law, the majority of the people would still stop the parades.
And if President Putin said no, you can't have a law against the parades, would he be working for the people or against them?
There's tons of violence against gays in America and lots of gay people off themselves. Making gay parades legal never stopped that from happening. So if gay parades were legal in Russia then there would still be violence against gays there and in the US. That wouldn't disappear.

As for me, I think it's all political and the olympics should NOT be all about politics, just sports. And no country has the right to tell another country what to do, period!
Btw, did anyone notice that we aren't boycotting Middle East oil. And those countries are seriously anti-gay!

Sochi has the most epic stuff for the Olympics and that's where the Olympics needs to be, period.
And President Putin did say that the anti-gay-propaganda law would be lifted for the Olympics. I just hope they don't have any parades though cause that's NOT sports.
Who cares what Cameron says? Anyway, I think you miss the point and so I'll explain why I find fault in your argument.

"It's not about President Putin?" What does that mean? The Olympics is all about politics, at least who is granted the location. But, this issue is about do you agree or disagree with the Government preventing expression and based on what. About parades: if you allow one, you have to allow them all. In the West, these gay parades get state funding and imho, that is unethical. In some countries, there's loopholes the Government uses and they call it 'tourism' projects or whatever. Russia wants to prevent these ideas from developing but people should say 'Нет' on their own. Why does Government always have to do the thinking for the people? I would be very wary with the Russian government dictating these policies and introducing laws to fight 'propaganda.' I already proved that the TV programming is in contradiction to what the law supposedly is doing. So, what is about? I disagree with Maxim's assertion that this is not for distraction. It's in the news every day and globally. The Russians might not care about the issue but the fact that you have the West attacking Russia about it means people will talk about that. Do you think Putin just woke up one day and decided to implement this law? No one predicted the consequences? I doubt it. He knew this would be one law that the majority would tolerate the prevention of rights since they don't care about that section of society.

I do think the West should stay out of it, though. They are hypocrites as always. They are the first to talk about rights when it's convenient but hypocrisy is a common theme.

People should be allowed to have their opinions, though, without special interest groups trying to control what people think.