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Obama slams debated Russia gay laws

During The Tonight Show, Obama also voiced his attitude towards  the new Russian law cracking down on gay rights activism. 

  The US president mentioned that he has “no patience for  countries that try to treat gays and lesbians and transgendered  persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them.”

The law ‘prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality to minors’ was  enacted on June 30, when it was signed by President Putin. It has  introduced fines for ‘propaganda’ of non-traditional sex  relations to minors, including in the media, on the internet and  via viral adverts. Under the amended law holding LGBT rallies is  now prohibited as well as distribution of information aimed at  forming non-traditional sexual concepts in children, describing  such ties as attractive.   

Supporters of the law insist it’s not about punishing people for  being homosexual, as was notoriously the case in the USSR, but to  keep young people from being dragged into same-sex relationships.  Critics argue that young people don’t become gay merely from  hearing or reading about homosexuality.  Many complain that the law does not specify which exact  activities constitute ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual  relations’, leaving the loose legal interpretation open to  abuse. 

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