I have a dream.
That one day the United States of America will use its powers for good. Put selfless action behind the words it preaches "freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and step out onto the global stage with a message which promotes that equality is no longer a variable, but an absolute.
The Olympics presents a rather benign opportunity to lead where others dare not go.
Russia still has a vast nuclear arsenal; at least as large as ours, and they are, by land-mass, the largest country in the world.
Russia has chosen to pass laws unfavorable to Gays.
In the not-too-distant past, the United States has passed laws unfavorable to Gays.
So has damned-near every other country throughout much of the civilized world.
It is only in the past half-decade to a decade that substantive Gay-favorable laws have begun surfacing within that domain.
Any sort of softening of societal attitudes towards Gays is going to take a very, very long time.
But, that's not good enough for Gays, who, I believe, are being highly unrealistic about timeframes and inclusiveness of nation-state legal processes.
Tough shit.
It's gonna take a few decades.
A great many Straight Folk think the Attractions and Behaviors and Practices and Outward and Public Manifestations are freakish and sinful and unnatural and perverse and dirty and creepy and repulsive as hell.
You can't legislate-away how people feel about such things.
Some nation-states merely manifest that revulsion in different ways than others.
Or at a different pace.
IMO, this is a non-issue - an artificial construct and complete-and-total bullshit - and the Olympics should stay right where they are.