{"id":24212,"date":"2014-02-10T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24212"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:19:26","slug":"putins-homophobia-is-making-the-case-to-allow-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/putins-homophobia-is-making-the-case-to-allow-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s homophobia is making the case to allow same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian leader&#8217;s anti-homosexual agenda is making converts of people like <em>Telegraph<\/em> columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/cristinaodone\/100258886\/vladimir-putin-has-made-it-impossible-for-me-to-be-against-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cristina Odone<\/a> who had been strongly against allowing same-sex marriage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vladimir Putin has succeeded where Peter Tatchell failed. I loathe the Russian president and admire the gay rights campaigner, but it is Putin that has made me rethink my view of gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>I have written before about my fear that legalising gay marriage would affect the special status of marriage as a sacred institution. I have argued that once gay people could demand to be married, believers who refused to open their churches or even church halls to the ceremony would be punished. But Putin&#8217;s homophobic measures have changed my mind. If I oppose gay marriage I may be seen as condoning his anti-gay campaign. I couldn&#8217;t live with that.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s anti-gay laws and practices are odious. Last summer, the Duma passed a law to \u201cprotect children from information that can bring harm to their health and wellbeing\u201d.  The legislation can stamp out any organisation seen as pro-gay and fine it up to 1 million roubles; foreigners can be arrested for 15 days and deported from the country. (Note: circulating Nazi propaganda carries a fine of up to 2,000 roubles: Russian parliamentarians regard non-traditional relations as far more pernicious.)<\/p>\n<p>The new law is easy to manipulate, allowing for example the authorities to shut down a helpline for LGBT teenagers, the Children-404 project: by providing sympathetic advice to isolated, bullied, ostracised, depressed and sometimes suicidal LGBT teenagers, the group is guilty of propaganda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian leader&#8217;s anti-homosexual agenda is making converts of people like Telegraph columnist Cristina Odone who had been strongly against allowing same-sex marriage: Vladimir Putin has succeeded where Peter Tatchell failed. I loathe the Russian president and admire the gay rights campaigner, but it is Putin that has made me rethink my view of gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,1119],"tags":[196,190,671],"class_list":["post-24212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-liberty","category-russia","tag-lgbt","tag-samesexmarriage","tag-vladimirputin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24213,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212\/revisions\/24213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}