Russian shitting themselves over Sochi?

Has the outrageous homophobic views of Russian lawmakers finally reached it's outer limit of influence? Are the Russians now shitting themselves over Sochi? Does money still talk? They've done nothing but dig in and reject the west's protests about their treatment of the LGBT so far. Suddenly, the homophobia and persecution of the LGBT appears to be running out of support.

The latest bill that was put up to be made into law, was an expansion of the "propaganda" law forbidding gays to be open about their sexuality to children. The logical progression of that law is to deny gay parents their own children, having the state take them. The later was the new law, but it failed to pass.

A Russian lawmaker has dropped a bill which proposed to strip parental rights away from gay couples with children. 

The bill, proposed by Russian politician Alexei Zhuravlyov, had not recieved sufficient public backing from politicians, and was withdrawn on Saturday. - See more

He's going to have another go at it and re-submit it. Perhaps the elephant in the room (Sochi) will triumph against such persecution of gays.