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Days after a similar demand from Russian actor Ivan “Burn Gays Alive” Okhlobystin, the Russian Orthodox Church has called for a public referendum to criminalize homosexual acts. The Church’s abrupt intervention came amid a growing debate over whether the Kremlin should mount a firmer defence of traditional values that many in the overwhelmingly conservative country view as coming under attack …

“I myself would shove all living gays into furnace. This is Sodom and Gomorrah.  I as a beliver in God can not treat this indifferently, this is a live threat to my kids! I do not wants my kids to think that faggots are normal. This is lavender fascism. If a person can not choose someone of an opposite sex …

Vitaly Milonov, the author of St. Petersburg’s “homosexual propaganda ban,” has responded to the attack which cost a gay man his left eye. Via the St. Petersburg Times: Answering Chizhevsky’s accusations, Milonov said LGBT organizations themselves were to blame for the attack and alleged that the incident might have been an act of provocation to compromise anti-LGBT activists. According to …

Priests from the Russian Orthodox Church and skinheads clashed with LGBT activists at a St. Petersburg rally yesterday to mark Coming Out Day. There were 67 arrests. The rally on the Field of Mars (Marsovo Pole) in the city’s downtown was scheduled at 2 p.m., but anti-gay activists arrived at the scene before that time to protest against the event. …

Eight followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were arrested for marching without a permit in Moscow yesterday after members of the Russian Orthodox Church attacked them during a mock religious rally. Followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster planned to hold a “pasta procession” in Moscow and St. Petersburg to honor the birthday of Robert De Niro, who …

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Today the Russian Duma almost unanimously approved the first reading of the national bill to ban “homosexualist propaganda.” The bill was supported by 388 MPs with one vote against and one abstention. The ban was submitted by deputies from the Novosibirsk Region in Siberia, who had earlier introduced similar local regulations. If approved, it would introduce heavy fines for the …

The American Family Association is today cheering Russia’s plan to criminalize “homosexual propaganda” and public displays of affection between people of the same gender. As an evangelist who works in Russia,Tim Todd tells OneNewsNow that is quite a contrast to America, which has the most pro-homosexual president in the country’s history. Todd, who heads Revival Fires International and has worked …

The Russian Orthodox Church has issued a letter vowing its solidarity with French Catholics in their battle against the same-sex marriage bill promised by President Francois Hollande. In a letter, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Moscow Patriarchate’s external relations director, praised Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, president of France’s bishops’ conference, for his “consistent and uncompromising” opposition to same-sex marriage which represented …