As the Olympic Torch went through the town of Voronezh, activist Pavel Lebedev came into the roadway and unfurled a small rainbow flag. He was arrested and hauled off to the police station "to clarify the circumstances of the incident." Perhaps he'll be fined for "violating public order." I note that the anti gay propaganda law isn't mentioned. Photos here.
On This Week (and probably not in response to the incident above) George Stephanopoulos asked Vladimir Putin about the anti-propaganda law and whether people wearing rainbow pins will be arrested in Sochi. Putin drew a distinction between protesting a law and actual gay propaganda. I don't know on which side the rainbow pin would land. Then he said, why criticize us? In some US states homosexuality remains a felony.
Stephanopoulos reminded him that the Supremes struck down those laws (and did so ten years ago).
That didn't slow Putin down much. These laws are in sync with the vast majority of our population, just as in many US states. So don't interfere with our laws. Besides we're not as bad as 70 other nations that consider homosexual behavior to be a crime.
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