RE: Apparently football is a sin now
July 11, 2014 at 5:41 am
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2014 at 5:43 am by Dystopia.)
Quote:Uganda isn't hosting any world cups any time soon. Bottom line is, Russian policy is anti-gay and clearly against spreading information on being gay. It actively suppresses homosexuality and promotes a society that is discriminatory and intolerant of it. People need to stop making excuses and start calling out intolerance for what it is.It's anti-gay or anti-traditional family as the law puts it, it's illegal to spread information incentiving people to be gay and promoting gay lifestyle, but I don't think it's illegal to make peaceful protest for gay rights and talk about it with adults. Anyway, Putin said it best when he mentioned comparing Russian with countries where being gay gets you the death penalty is of no use. In Russia being gay is not even a noun, it's a verb, it's considered a behavior that is contagious and can be prevented.
Quote:They are being persecuted by the very nature of the laws. It's illegal to spread information about homosexuality. That's oppression plain and simple.To spread information to minors. Yes it's illegal but if they abstain from spreading information or 'propaganda' they will be fine, even the jail time is not very high, most people will just pay fines, Russia needs to fix it but they still are better than third world countries where being gay inside your house is a crime. I don't think gays will be persecuted if they abstain from spreading information, sure there are some videos of people beating and humiliating gays in Russia but not all Russian people would do that. I think not doing the WC just because Russians don't like gays is stupid, it's not a significant issue enough to ensure we abstain from doing the world cup here. If they had severe violations of human rights that would be another problem
(July 10, 2014 at 11:50 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Ohhhhhhhh ...
You meant FUTbol!!
Come on man, you need to clarify with your spelling, you've got Americans on this website. For a moment I thought you were speaking of the amazing time-honored awesome sport of FOOTBALL. You're just talking about boring old soccer.
meh, who cares.
Football is not even my favorite sport, but I'll treat american football with the same respect americans treat soccer.
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