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1. It does, as it restricts your right to expression.
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Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
This was formulated at 10 dec 1948. It is about expressing opinions. It has nothing to do with gay parades, there were no pride parades back then and it was post-WWII world looking for really basic human rights to prevent second nazism. This article was mainly against brain-washing by goverment (hence receive any information outside of frontiers, to resist dictatorship propaganda). It means, that you are free to have any opinion and express it. It by no means implies that you have a right to promote gayness to children. You can express your opinion on gayness in Russia, whatever this opinion is. We do have open gays among celebraties. Some of them are even singing lesbian anthems.
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3. Interesting that you comment on "hate and lie" while promoting Russian propaganda that attempts to cloud the issue of how difficult it is to be LGBT in Russia.
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Please tell me, where exactly did I post any Russian propaganda?
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4. As with many anti-gay groups, they associate pedophiles with the gay community. This is rooted in ignorance and bigotry. They constantly attack the gay community under the guise of being "against pedophilia", which they inexcusably link with homosexuality, and lump all homosexuals in with pedophiles.
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You are wrong, but it is irrelevant. Those guys are outlaw scum. Even if they were indeed killing gays, they are just outlaw scum that will be erased sooner (hopefully) or later. Canceling Putin's law will have no effect on it and they were formed before this law. There's no way what they do is allowed under Russian law.
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5. You're comparing riots against a hockey team losing vs. what I posted?
Your lapse in logic is astounding.
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No, my point was that we all can post some horrifying videos about Russia and Canada/Western world till cows come home. And it has nothing to do with the discussion.
Anyway, I assume, that those who were really interested in achieving goals of protecting gay teens from being bullied got something useful from my last few posts and it was hopefully a constructive outcome of the discussion (and I'm shocked that this was ever achieved, but now I believe, that it was). I'm done for today and probably tommorrow.