Is anyone watching this ghastly OLYMPICS Opening Ceremony display on NBC?

[MADem]

187. It would be nice if they could, but you haven't been following the thread if you

think this is the case. Putin politicized the Games with his anti-gay commentaries and his insistence that gays would interfere with CHILDREN. His regime condones brutality against gays. Human Rights Watch has noticed and commented.

If the Games were about the Games, that would be one thing. These games are not about the Games, though--they are about Putin and his desire to appear as a powerful world leader/dictator, and he doesn't mind projecting a POV of Russia as a homophobic bastion, either--in fact, he welcomes that perception.

You don't have to be gay to understand that being gay is not a "social" issue, either. In Russia, it could very well be a matter of life and death.

I can't believe some of the dismissive attitudes I'm hearing from people who style themselves as progressives. It's offensive, frankly.

Tell your gay friends, neighbors and relatives to "snap out of it." Tell the DUers here who are gay to "snap out of it." WTF is wrong with you? Your attitude is obtuse, or selfish or both--it's embarrassing ... for you.

I'll stand with the LGBT people on this issue. Putin chose to make a point that gay people are not safe in his country, and Obama responded by refusing to grace his little show with his presence, sending a delegation that delivered a hearty F U to that petty little despot, and I applaud and support him for it.

As for that snowflake, that was Gay Karma at work--and it served the miserable old bigot right.