Moscow's mayor links gays to spread of AIDS

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Moscow has banned gays and lesbians from promoting their way of life because they can help spread HIV/AIDS, the Russian capital's 72-year-old mayor was quoted as saying on Thursday by RIA news agency.

Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, speaking at an HIV/AIDS conference in Moscow, also said there was no scientific proof that condoms provided full protection against sexually transmitted diseases.

"We have banned, and will ban, the propaganda of sexual minorities' opinions because they can be one of the factors in the spread of HIV infection," Luzhkov was quoted as saying by state-owned RIA.

"Some home-grown democrats consider that sexual minorities are a major indicator and symbol of democracy but we will continue to ban the spread of their views," Luzhkov said.

Luzhkov's administration has banned several gay rights marches in Moscow in the interests, it argues, of ensuring security and preventing public disorder.

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:crazy:

We already had the Gay/AIDS witch hunt in this country in the 80's. The mayor should read a newspaper.

Which has been proven untrue except in small, deaf circles in the US.

It's one thing to suddenly realize that gay men are more likely to be exposed to the virus--we caught onto that notion decades ago. It's quite another to leap from that to a wholesale clamping down on any open discussion about the lifestyle.
Remember Patrick Henry--Give me liberty or give me death. What use is being alive and AIDS-free if society has bartered away all its freedom?

fucking assholes. does he realize lesbians have the lowest rates of hiv/std infections?

:sarcasm:

Where does all this hate come from?

With such a powerful church, it's a miracle that Russia got around to decriminalizing our "way of life" back in 1993.

:shrug:

:sarcasm:

But it's the gays and lesbians.