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On Thursday, scathing comments from gay and human rights activists began spewing out across the Internet and social media outlets, shortly after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Russia’s controversial law banning the promotion of “non-traditional relationships” to minors doesn’t violate the anti-discrimination guarantees in the Olympic charter. In a statement Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights advocacy group focusing on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issues, said, “If this law doesn’t violate the IOC’s charter, then, the charter’s completely meaningless”. The Kremlin maintains the new law aims at protecting children, it doesn’t prevent adults from making their own choices, but critics claim the legislation is part of a much wider crackdown on homosexuality in Russia.
Many expressed concern about what impact the law might have on LGBT athletes and spectators at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. Griffin said, “The safety of millions of LGBT Russians and international travellers is at risk, and by all accounts the IOC has completely neglected its responsibility to Olympic athletes, sponsors, and fans from around the world. The IOC and its new president, Thomas Bach, are putting the good reputation of the Olympic Games and its corporate sponsors in jeopardy”.
A message posted on Twitter said, “The Olympics has become an agent to oppression”. Another said that the IOC “washed its hands” on Russia. A third posting read, “Meanwhile in Russia… Gay rights activists arrested over Sochi 2014 protest”, with a link to a story about gay protesters being arrested in Sochi this week. Following a tenth and final inspection of Sochi this week, the IOC proclaimed the law in question doesn’t violate the Olympic discrimination clause. at a Thursday press conference in Sochi, where the games will begin on 7 February 2014, Jean-Claude Killy, chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission, said, “The IOC doesn’t have the right to discuss the laws that are in place in the country hosting the games, so unless the charter’s violated, we’re fully satisfied”. Sochi passed the inspection with flying colours, getting a glowing review from Killy. He said, “Our impression is unanimous, everything’s very impressive”.
26 September 2013
RIA-Novosti
http://www.en.rian.ru/world/20130926/183755148/Gay-Rights-Activists-Fuming-over-IOC-Sochi-Decision.html
Editor’s Note:
Mind you, the gay activists and their enablers aren’t going to “go away”. They enjoy the brouhaha too much. Don’t argue with them. It’s “pig ‘rasslin’”… all parties involved get dirty as all hell and the pig enjoys it immensely. Don’t get suckered in…
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10 July 2016. Great Minds DO Think Alike… Over the Ages, Over the Cultures
Tags: Activism, American history, Frederick Douglass, history, human rights activists, John Trudell, political activism, political commentary, politics, revolution, United States, USA
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Frederick Douglass and John Trudell… two different centuries… two different cultures (American Negro and Indigenous First Nation American)… but one mind, one soul, and one heart. Read n’ heed…
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