Video Depicts Horrific Attack on Gay Man in Russia

[MADem]

128. You are "minimizing" though.

Look, this IS an issue. It might not be so noticeable were it not for our intersection with Pootie on other matters, or--most importantly, since we DO have gay Olympic athletes--the fact that Sochi is on the horizon, but we are going over there, and our folks are going to have to compete with a sword of intolerance over their heads.

I am sure you aren't homophobic, but you just might want to sharpen up on this topic, and start to get a sense of how this issue affects a large percentage of our population. Our reaction to it, as a nation, shouldn't be "Oh, well" it should be "That's not acceptable to us."

And you need to recognize that Pootie could shut this shit down, wipe that law off the books, yet he doesn't. In fact, he's sitting back while more anti-gay laws are crafted.

Again--you need to stop minimizing. When gay Russian kids and young adults are being brutalized because the Poot regime has essentially given permission for them to be bullied, attacked, or worse, that IS a problem.

The only appropriate response is "That is unacceptable."