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Hey kids… Lets play Gay Wheel of Fortune! Or Misfortune…

ay rights in the US, state by state Gay rights laws in America have evolved to allow... more

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Missouri Pastor’s Fiery Speech Against Equal Rights for Homosexuals Has Stunning Twist Ending "VIDEO"

Back in August, during a Springfield City Council public hearing on amending the... more

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Actress Sally Field: Speech about Gay Equality and the F-Bomb

by hrcmedia Actress Sally Field speaks at HRC's 16th Annual National Dinner... more

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Boycotts Do Work: Chick-fil-A Halts Anti-Gay Funding

Thanks, but no chick... While I am certainly glad that Chick-fil-A will no longer... more

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Vikings Punter: Maryland Lawmaker ‘Mind-bogglingly stupid’ on Marriage Equality

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo recently spoke out in favor of... more

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Maryland legislator demands that NFL player supporting gay marriage be silenced

The legislator Emmert C. Burns, Jr. wrote the owner of the NFL Ravens complaining... more

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Justice Served: Former Michigan AG Ordered to Pay 4.5 Million for Stalking Gay Student

Resolution to a story The Stew has been following for two years: ------- We hear... more

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Creator of ‘Modern Family’ Tweets on Show Being Ann Romney’s Favorite

Ann Romney recently told Entertainment Tonight that the ABC hit “Modern... more

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Sex, Guns, and Mix Tapes

Republicans are showcasing their stance on important issues this week including gun... more

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Del. Dwyer Update (Anti-Gay Lawmaker Crashes Boat) ...

Maryland Republicans rush to dump Del Dwyer. House leaders are anxious to replace him... more

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FRC Shooting Victim Leo Johnson Is Released From Hospital

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Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League Exposed for Violence Inspiring Defamation and Lies

For many years now, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Anti-Defamation League... more

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Pussy Riot - The Secret History

Slightly long read, but worth it bfrom a very good journalist in Moscow.

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Universally admired, Pussy Riot (or PR for short) have been promoted as superstars. But what are they? A rock or punk group they are not. A British journalist marvelled: they produce no music, no song, no painting, nada, rien, nothing. How can they be described as “artists”? This was a severe test for their supporters, but they passed it with flying honours: that famous lover-of-art, the US State Department, paid for their first ever single being produced by The Guardian out of some images and sounds.

Hell-bent on publicity, but artistically challenged, three young women from Russia decided well, it sounds like a limerick. They stole a frozen chicken from a supermarket and used it as dildo; filmed the act, called it “art” and placed it on the web. (It is still there) Their other artistic achievements were an orgy in a museum and a crude presentation of an erect prick.

Eventually the young viragos were mobilised for an attack on the Church. By that time they were willing to do anything for their bit of publicity. And the anti-Church campaign started a few months ago, quite suddenly as if by command. The Russian Church had 20 years of peace, recovering after the Communist period, and it was surprised by ferocity of the attack.

Though this subject calls for longer exposition, let us be brief. After collapse of the USSR, the Church remained the only important spiritual pro-solidarity force in Russian life. The Yeltsin and Putin administrations were as materialist as the communists; they preached and practiced social Darwinism of neo-Liberal kind. The Church offered something beside the elusive riches on earth. Russians who lost the glue of solidarity previously provided by Communists eagerly flocked to the alternative provided by the Church.

The government and the oligarchs treated the Church well, as the Church had a strong anti-Communist tendency, and the haves were still afraid of the Reds leading the have-nots. The Church flourished, many beautiful cathedrals were rebuilt, many monasteries came back after decades of decay. The newly empowered church became a cohesive force in Russia.

As it became strong, the Church began to speak for the poor and dispossessed; the reformed Communists led by the Church-going Gennadi Zuganov, discovered a way to speak to the believers. A known economist and thinker, Michael Khazin, predicted that the future belongs to a new paradigm of Red Christianity, something along the lines of Roger Garaudy’s early thought. The Red Christian project is a threat to the elites and a hope for the world, he wrote. Besides, the Russian church took a very Russian and anti-globalist position.

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Two years’ sentence is quite in line with prevailing European practice. For much milder anti-Jewish hate talk, European countries customarily sentence offenders to two-to-five years of prison for the first offence. The Russians applied hate crime laws to offenders against Christian faith, and this is probably a Russian novelty. The Russians proved that they care for Christ as much as the French care for Auschwitz, and this shocked the Europeans who apparently thought ‘hate laws’ may be applied only to protect Jews and gays. The Western governments call for more freedom for the anti-Christian Russians, while denying it for holocaust revisionists in their midst.

The anti-Putin opposition flocked to support the PR. A radical charismatic opposition leader, the poet Eduard Limonov wrote that the opposition made a mistake supporting the PR, as they antagonise the masses; the chasm between the masses and the opposition grows. But his voice was crying in the wilderness, and the rest of the opposition happily embraced the PR cause, trying to turn it into a weapon against Putin. The Western media and governments also used it to attack Putin. The Guardian editorial called on Putin to resign. Putin called for clemency to the PR, and the government was embarrassed by the affair. But they were left with no choice: the invisible organisers behind PR wanted to have the viragos in jail, and so they did.

Commercially, they hit jackpot. With support of Madonna and the State Department, they are likely to leave the jail ready for the world tour and photo ops at the White House. They registered their name as a trade mark and began to issue franchises. And their competitors, the Femen group (whose art is showing off their boobs in unusual places) tried to beat the PR by chopping down a large wooden cross installed in memory of Stalin’s victims. Now sky is the limit.

In August, vacation season, when there is not much hard news and the newspaper readers are at the seashore or countryside, the PR trial provided much needed entertainment for man and beast. Hopefully it will drop from the agenda with the end of the silly season, but do not bet on it.Slightly long read, but worth it bfrom a very good journalist in Moscow. ****... more