Monday 16 September 2013

The man who will take LGBT children

Meet Alexei Zhuravley, Russian lawmaker, which this interview was published in a Russian magazine called "Slon". He also is the author of the new draft law to remove children from their parents for being gay.


The interview is utterly mind-blowing, in that it reveals the darkness of the thinking going on in Russia now. As a parent myself I find his views entirely insulting. Here's some of it, or you can read the whole dreadful thing here. Firstly I'd point out his no compromise statement on gays having parents:
It arose for you personally?

No, people turned to me because they did not know what to do. A woman was divorcing her husband because he professed a non-traditional orientation. But he was a man with a great deal of influence, and the court awarded custody of the children to him, because at present the Family Code contains no restriction of that kind. It occurred to me that since we have a law explicitly prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality among minors, the Family Code should be amended in such a way that that if a husband or a wife professes a non-traditional sexual orientation, they should be deprived of their parental rights. The purpose of this would be to restrict the influence of such a person on his or her own children. more
"On his or her own children!"  That's extremist enough, but this shit has to take the cake:  
What if the child is being brought up, for example, by a single mother who is a homosexual? It is still necessary to deprive her of her parental rights? 

Of course she should definitely be deprived of her rights to the child. We shall see to it, have no doubts. Homosexuals must not raise children. They corrupt them. They do them much more harm than if the child were in an orphanage. I am deeply convinced of this. more

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