Russia votes for repression

Russia has moved further backwards into the dark ages. It's going ahead with legislation that will, among other things, ban gays kissing in public (fuck David and I would be bloody doomed over there). Evidently a gay kiss isn't in fact a gesture of affection, but part of an evil gay propaganda plot to corrupt the Russian society. How fuckin pathetic can these idiots get?

The push to agree the law on a federal level has dismayed rights activists who see the legislation in the latest in a sequence of repressive legislation against civil society to be debated by parliament.

But the Duma's family affairs committee chair Yelena Mizulina said she backed a nationwide law that "protected minors from the consequences of homosexuality." 

"The unbridled propaganda of homosexuality anywhere you look effectively limits the child's right to free development," said Mizulina in televised comments to journalists ahead of the bill reading. more

I mean seriously, you couldn't make this up.