Quote Originally Posted by Юрка View Post
Европа (и Америка, как часть Европы) просто хочет, чтобы мы были похожи на них. Но у Европы был свой долгий путь, а у нас свой, совсем другой.
В Европе было рабство (белые владели чёрными), а у нас нет.
В Европе долгое время в средние века убивали геев на законном основании, а у нас нет.
Теперь Европа комплексует по поводу своих грехов, пытается их компенсировать в своей голове запретом слова "чёрный", признанием "браков" и т.д. Но у нас не было этих грехов и поэтому нет этих комплексов. Поэтому нечего компенсировать в своей психике.
You misunderstand. We don't want you to be just like us. It isn't about that at all.

Gay people are not only living in Europe and in the US. There are plenty of gay people living in Russia, too. Shutting them up, killing them, making laws against everything they are will not cause gay people to stop being born.

It's a pity you will not watch the Matthew Shepard story, or understand the movie. It's a story of a family, and how they had to face their own homophobia and ignorance when their son was brutally murdered.

To say that because Europe had slaves, but Russia didn't, is probably true (notwithstanding the Viking Russians who did, in fact, have slaves). But to say that because Europe and the US did some things wrong, does not mean that therefore gay rights is also wrong. You are conflating the issues.

Yes. Russia does have its own path. And there will undoubtedly be many Russian boys will will die because they are gay, and because hatred of them is tolerated. But those boys will also have parents, like Matthew Shepard had, who will grieve the deaths of their children. And those parents will come to see that it was not their children who were wrong, but the hatred that is wrong. And some day, perhaps many years from now, even Russia will change.