This is scary. Today the Russian Orthodox Church announced that they think homosexuality should just be banned all together. To be clear, they want to remove homosexuals from society. Does that sound familiar at all? This is especially troubling because it is coming directly from the Church. There are no mixing words here. This is nothing short of criminal.

Here is what evil spokesman. Vsevolod Chaplin had to say to the online edition of the pro-government Izvestia daily, “There is no question that society should discuss this issue since we live in a democracy,”. “For this reason, it is precisely the majority of our people and not some outside powers that should decide what should be a criminal offence and what should not.”. Lastly, he said, “I am convinced that such sexual contacts should be completely excluded from the life of our society,”
Wow. Seriously dude? I wasn’t aware that it’s 1945 again. He then went on to add, “If we manage to do this through moral pressure, all the better. But if we need to revert to assistance from the law, then let us ask the people if they are ready for this.”. !!!! So basically he is literally saying that they are striving for Nazi Germany…I really hope that world leaders take this very seriously because this is the exact type of rhetoric that was spewed in Nazi Germany before things got bad.

By the way, over 1/3 of Russians view homosexuality as an illness according to recent polls. Has anyone taken a step back and thought why?? Gee. I wonder.

This is major folks. The news from Russia has not been good for equality. Let’s hope things change and soon.