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Originally Posted by strombad
2. You're using an outlandish example to make it sounds inappropriate.
If a 10 year old boy is on the street and you say "the Conservative government is a sham" then that is fully within reason of the law. You can express your opinion to anybody regardless of age. "It's ok to be gay" is not wrong, perverse, or even an opinion, it is FACT. If someone casually told a child "It's ok to be white" the Russian government would not come down on them, why? What difference is there?
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They will. If you are white and you come to 10 years old black boy and tell him that "it's ok to be white", which would obviously sound as some sort of taunting, you may very well be charged. If you come to white boy and tell him that it's ok to be white, you obviously will not be charged (unless you go further and try to convince him that whites are superior). If you come to 10 years old gay boy and tell him that it's ok to be gay, you will not be charged. If you come to 10 years old hetero boy and tell him that it's ok to be gay, most likely you will be charged, however it depends on judge decision and with 0 actual practice on this law, it's hard to say where exactly the line is (and I never denied that it is vague and could be more precise).
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Originally Posted by strombad
3. Oh sorry, do you Russians have a magical justice system that is able to run people through the system within a month? Because I THOUGHT most things took more than a month. The man was charged for a simple sign he held in the city centre, and he will likely be convicted of the offence. This sign goes against the lies you've been telling about "what is allowed" and made it extremely clear that you're interested in lying and stretching the truth in whatever way you please to make your point. Shame.
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It is two monthes actually, and this case is the only one that is currently being processed (at least according to this very same article). There were also two cased of charges dropped.
This article says that this guy is likely NOT going to be convicted, however it's all a matter of opinion at this point. You are saying that "it is extremely clear that I'm interested in lying" based merely on your opinion that he's going to be convicted.
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4. What have you done? Anything? You don't care about Russian teens either. Want to know why people aren't listening or taking you seriously? Because of your unwavering support of bigotry and hate under an embarrassing guise of humanity. Just stop. We get it. You're creating a red herring to distract people and attempt to make everyone look worse. Trust me, you've made yourself look worse than anyone else could have.
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I've done nothing to actually help gay teens, however since finding ways to help gay teens was a topic, I contributed to it.
You are taking this debate WAY too seriously. Probably because you are new here. It is just an off-season CP debate for me. I initially joined in merely to explain the law, however than I felt like I enjoy the discussion. Once season starts, I will go back to discussing Flames hockey, which I've been doing here for decade.