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Putin shows us the failure of "Democracy." I hope the USA wakes up.
A series of constitutional amendments signed by President Vladimir Putin on Monday intensifies Russia’s years-long crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights.
The wide-ranging amendments formally outlaw same-sex marriages and ban transgender people from adopting children. Marriage equality had been long treated as illegal in Russia, where LGBTQ+ people commonly face persecution from governmental authorities, but as local activists told the Washington Blade, the definition of a family unit as “exclusively... a union of a man and a woman" was absent from the country’s constitution prior to this week.
That loophole, according to advocate Mikhail Tumasov, “gave hope” to the LGBTQ+ community that human rights defenders could one day “introduce same sex marriages on that legal base.”
The source is a homosexual rights magazine which I refuse to link to. Google it if you want more info
A series of constitutional amendments signed by President Vladimir Putin on Monday intensifies Russia’s years-long crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights.
The wide-ranging amendments formally outlaw same-sex marriages and ban transgender people from adopting children. Marriage equality had been long treated as illegal in Russia, where LGBTQ+ people commonly face persecution from governmental authorities, but as local activists told the Washington Blade, the definition of a family unit as “exclusively... a union of a man and a woman" was absent from the country’s constitution prior to this week.
That loophole, according to advocate Mikhail Tumasov, “gave hope” to the LGBTQ+ community that human rights defenders could one day “introduce same sex marriages on that legal base.”
The source is a homosexual rights magazine which I refuse to link to. Google it if you want more info