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Russian MP moves to strip gays of parental rights ? RT Russian politics
Interesting. So what do you think? Is having a gay parent the equivalent of child abuse? Will this kind of law pass after the Olympics in Russia? Are these the kind of laws that social conservatives in America would like to see imposed?
State Duma deputy from United Russia parliamentary caucus claims that the recently introduced ban on promotion of non-traditional sex relations to minors should be extended to families. Therefore, homosexual parents have no right to raise their children.
MP Aleksey Zhuravlev submitted the suggested amendments to the Family Code to the State Duma on Thursday. The explanatory note to the bill reads that non-traditional sexual orientation of one or both parents would become sufficient reason to deprive both of them of their parental rights.
“Following the letter of the law that forbids propaganda of non-traditional sex to minors we must restrict such propaganda not only in mass media but also the family,” Zhuravlev wrote. His reasoning is that “if one of the child’s parents indulges in sexual contact with persons of the same sex, the damage to the child’s psyche is immense as a mother or father serves as an example for their offspring.”
Interesting. So what do you think? Is having a gay parent the equivalent of child abuse? Will this kind of law pass after the Olympics in Russia? Are these the kind of laws that social conservatives in America would like to see imposed?