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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by GotAnyMegadeth on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:06AM (#6172880)
I thought that they were going to ignore the anti-LGBT laws for the Olympics [0]

[0] http://rt.com/news/russia-olympics-gay-law-948/

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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by bayesianhorse on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:16AM (#6172973)
They clarified later that they are going to enforce that law.
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Re:Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, ju... by hedgie13 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @11:04AM (#6173286)
They clarified: the law does not prohibit being gay, the law just introduces fines for promoting homosexuality as a norm for children under 16. It is probably a bad law, but it is not saying what everyone protesting it thinks it is saying.
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