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    В этом законе надо было сделать хитрее: запретить не только рекламу гомосексуальных, но и гетеросексуальных отношений.
    И тогда никто бы не сказал, что это "Law against Gays".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deborski View Post
    No. They do not have special rights above "ordinary men." There are simply laws in place which make it illegal to beat, kill, torture, and harass people because they are gay (or black, or Jewish, or any other class of people who have a history of being persecuted in our country). These laws are necessary now, because gay people are hated more than "ordinary" (ie, heterosexual) men.

    To be even clearer, no rights are being taken away from heterosexual people, just because gays are protected by law. All these protections mean is that you can no longer fire someone from their job because they are gay. If they are a bad employee, you can still fire them. But you cannot fire them just because they are gay. Without these laws in place, discrimination is allowed and gay people have no legal recourse to fight a wrongful termination, for example.
    I would love more the law, which forbids to kill anyone, and I think you have it. Why not "enforce" it then?
    In case of employer-employee relationships, I doubt that the cause of the fire can be proved. Simply lazy gays will be hard to fire. It is eternal issue: in Russia, there are special laws to prevent unfair terminations in respect to women (they tend to suddenly make kids and can miss the work for years, retaining the position), but it is revealed that "fair" termination became also almost impossible.
    "Невозможно передать смысл иностранной фразы, не разрушив при этом её первоначальную структуру."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Юрка View Post
    В этом законе надо было сделать хитрее: запретить не только рекламу гомосексуальных, но и гетеросексуальных отношений.
    И тогда никто бы не сказал, что это "Law against Gays".
    Запрет рекламы гетеросексуальных отношений практически равносилен запрету брака между мужчиной и женщиной. А если учесть, что запрет на рекламу направлен в отношении несовершеннолетних, то считай, что сделай они это, то они бы запретили ребёнку жить в семье, как никак реклама
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    Well, I tried to steer clear of this thread (I know I posted here first ) for as long as I saw it rapidly growing. I didn't read the whole thread but as from what I see I can say that people just forgot what this thread was all about and started to advocate/deny gay rights. At risk to become unpopular I think I have to express my thoughts about all that.

    First of all, the whole thread was not about gay rights but about why it's ridiculous to boycott Sochi Olympics because of the law. Well, I'm gonna tell you why:

    If somebody here really thinks that gay athletes will be persecuted due to this law they need to guess again. Russian high officials are bound to give the police orders to look the other way when it comes to dealing with anything regarding Olympics. Russia is not interested in letting Olympics go astray from what they see perfect Olympic games. That's the matter of the country's image nonetheless! If you look at the history of how Russia held any impoprtant even it will just become obvious. We always try to organize the most lavish, perfect and astonishing events if they're to be international. This is the Russian thing, it's a part of our culture. (Well, the thing is that we don't always undoubtly pull this off but that's another thing to discuss. ) There is nothing to believe it's gonna be different this time or at any time soon.


    Second of all, did somebody here actually examine the law? All it says is that it's prohibited to popularize the notion among juveniles that being a gay is utterly great, awesome and so much better than being dully straight. In other words it's illegal to tell juveniles that they should be gay or to incline them to be gay by any means. And it undoubtly doesn't prohibit anyone from being gay, also it doesn't prohibit anyone from telling an adult that to be gay is great, doesn't prohibit gay clubs as long as they host adults only, doesn't prohibit so called "pride parades" as long as no juveniles are involved and it doesn't prohibit any gay symbolics. Still more it doesn't prohibit a whole load of other gay activities but I think it's enough for now because you've most likely got the point already.

    All what I wrote is based on what I concluded from the actual law text after I'd actully read it. But don't take my word for that, after having read the law text I also happened upon the interview of the initiator of the law, Elena Mizulina.

    The interview is in Russian but this site is called Master Russian so I trust you can get at least the main point of the interview and you surely are welcome to ask me to clarify anything you dind't understand there.

    Also, one more thing, I agree that this law is far from perfect so some amendments are surely to come, But what law was perfect in its first edition? Even so sacred American constitution had and I'm sure will have some amendments.

    As far as I see it now this law is not against gays it's against turning our children into gays or somehow inclining them to become one. It definitely doesn't deprive gays of their normal life, that just impose some limits om their interactions with children. And if you ask me I'd say all persons, be they straight or gay, have some certain limits on how they're allowed to interact with children.

    That's all what I had to say. I hope I didn't hurt or abuse anyone but this is my view on the law
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    If you've spotted any mistake in my English, please, correct it. I want to be aware of any mistakes to efficiently eliminate them before they become a habit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iCake View Post
    ...As far as I see it now this law is not against gays it's against turning our children into gays or somehow inclining them to become one. ...
    Опять за рыбу гроши! Абсолютно невозможно сделать геем ребёнка, который не рождён геем. Нет такого! Нельзя предложить девочке влюбиться в девочку, если она не родилась геем. Хорошо помню имена мальчиков, в которых я была влюблена в детском садике (Миша Сухинин), в младших классах (Олег Леднёв). В старших классах ни в кого не была влюблена, потом в институте (Толя Серёдкин) и т.д. То же самое про мальчиков. Мой сын ребёнком отнёс все свои "сокровища" девочке из другого класса. Потом спрашивал, а что можно сделать, чтобы понравиться кому-то.
    Так что этот закон - злонамеренная чушь. И последствия этого закона для детей-геев просто трагические.


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    Quote Originally Posted by iCake View Post
    Запрет рекламы гетеросексуальных отношений практически равносилен запрету брака между мужчиной и женщиной.
    Не брака, а публичных обнималок, сосалок, лежалок и т.д.
    Кстати, порнография сразу получила бы удар. А то сейчас она не подсудна.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
    И последствия этого закона для детей-геев просто трагические.
    Да. Они не смогут размахивать причандалами на фестивале себе подобных. Такая трагедия...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post

    Крис Кристи молодец!
    cool link provided, thanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
    Опять за рыбу гроши! Абсолютно невозможно сделать геем ребёнка, который не рождён геем. Нет такого!
    Well, you are actually wrong
    There is no proven fact that it is impossible, as well as there is no proven fact that people born as gays
    Simon LeVay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doomer View Post
    Well, you are actually wrong
    There is no proven fact that it is impossible, as well as there is no proven fact that people born as gays
    Simon LeVay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    "На колу висит мочало, начинаем всё сначала".
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    Нет такого!
    Ну и тем более, значит закон ни на что не повлияет!
    Но бережёного бог бережёт
    "Невозможно передать смысл иностранной фразы, не разрушив при этом её первоначальную структуру."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
    "На колу висит мочало, начинаем всё сначала".
    если все время говорить неправду, это не сделает ее правдой
    если есть доказательства - попрошу в студию
    иначе это просто полемика с попыткой подгона под результат

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    Quote Originally Posted by maxmixiv View Post
    Ну и тем более, значит закон ни на что не повлияет!
    Но бережёного бог бережёт
    Очень сильно может повлиять на детей-геев. Эти дети часто своих родителей боятся. И часто, если родители отсталые и трусливые, они от своих детей-геев отказываются. А Бог далеко.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
    Опять за рыбу гроши! Абсолютно невозможно сделать геем ребёнка, который не рождён геем. Нет такого! Нельзя предложить девочке влюбиться в девочку, если она не родилась геем. Хорошо помню имена мальчиков, в которых я была влюблена в детском садике (Миша Сухинин), в младших классах (Олег Леднёв). В старших классах ни в кого не была влюблена, потом в институте (Толя Серёдкин) и т.д. То же самое про мальчиков. Мой сын ребёнком отнёс все свои "сокровища" девочке из другого класса. Потом спрашивал, а что можно сделать, чтобы понравиться кому-то.
    Так что этот закон - злонамеренная чушь. И последствия этого закона для детей-геев просто трагические.


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    Chris Christie signs N.J. bill banning gay conversion therapy - latimes.com
    Did you even read my post? Or better say did you try to understand what I wrote? The law doesn't say that it's possible to make someone gay nor does it say that it's impossible. That just states that telling a juvenile to become gay is illegal. Can you ever try to abstract from your personal feelings when judging something or trying to prove something? As I said I wrote that text at my own risk to become hated and unpopular by who advocate gay rights here. So it seems that risk has come to pass. I'm so dissapointed. But please, take a look at my post again. Did I state there that I dissaprove/approve of gays? Well, it seems I didn't. What a pity.

    Another time you're trying to strike personally and all you're based on is just your subjective believes. Can you provide any proof that it's 100% impossible to influence someone so that they somehow become gay? Or better yet do you have any proof that homosexuality is something you're born with? Oops, it seems you don't. And I tell you why. There is no such kinds of prooves yet. There might be but not now. And don't you try to tell me that all gays claim they were born gay. It's yet their own subjective opinions they might be sure of that but they might be deluded. Don't you think?

    So without those kinds of prooves your statement is nothing but your personal opinion, which may or may not be true. So it doesn't give you any right to claim anything there

    And for another time I see that you didn't really try to read into my post. Because the main statement there was under "first of all" and was about why it's ridiculous to boycott Sochi Olympics. It is not the thought that was conveyed with the most number of words, which is why you possibly didn't count it as the most important one, but it was definitely the gist of my post.

    Please, don't let your personal judgement cloud your thinking. You're much better than that.

    And I'm going out of here before people tear me apart for nothing. Good day
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doomer View Post
    если все время говорить неправду, это не сделает ее правдой
    если есть доказательства - попрошу в студию
    иначе это просто полемика с попыткой подгона под результат
    А погуглить?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
    А погуглить?
    я погуглил и привел научное исследование как факт, что вы говорите неправду
    можно найти кучу популизма и очень небольшое количество фактов
    я так понимаю что посыл погуглить означает что фактов у вас нет

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    3 Ways to Know if You Are Gay - wikiHow

    "Understand a bit about what science says about being gay
    . Studies seem to support a strong genetic component in sexual orientation. A hot area of research currently is in epigenetics, or the study of how non-genetic factors influence the expression of genes. Geneticists hypothesize that homosexuality is linked to "epi-marks," or extra layers of information that determine how genes are expressed.[4] Normally, epi-marks are deleted when genes get passed from parents to children. With homosexuals, scientists believe that epi-marks are not deleted, and instead passed on from either father to daughter or from mother to son.[4]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
    А Бог далеко.
    Но Америка близко. Прилетят и расфигачат нас, чтобы мы хорошо себя вели и не обижали сироток.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doomer View Post
    Well, you are actually wrong
    There is no proven fact that it is impossible, as well as there is no proven fact that people born as gays
    Simon LeVay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Скучно мне во всё это вникать, но одно место привлекло моё внимание: "...my findings are not to be believed because I am gay." Смешно!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
    Скучно мне во всё это вникать, но одно место привлекло моё внимание: "...my findings are not to be believed because I am gay." Смешно!
    очень жаль что вас привлекают только смешные места и не привлекают факты
    я почитал вашу ссылку, она лишь подтверждает мои слова: доказательств нет, а пока нет доказательств утверждать что люди рождаются геями - это давать заведомо ложную информацию. И как бы она не казалась социально-корректной, это все равно ложь

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doomer View Post
    очень жаль что вас привлекают только смешные места и не привлекают факты
    я почитал вашу ссылку, она лишь подтверждает мои слова: доказательств нет, а пока нет доказательств утверждать что люди рождаются геями - это давать заведомо ложную информацию. И как бы она не казалась социально-корректной, это все равно ложь
    That is what I hinted her at. But this sadly seems to have gone ignored
    I do not claim that my opinion is absolutely true.
    If you've spotted any mistake in my English, please, correct it. I want to be aware of any mistakes to efficiently eliminate them before they become a habit.

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