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Re:Google to close engineering office in Russia by osipov on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:51PM (#8742309)
Choose your words carefully, the law blocks _propaganda_ not speaking; of _"sexual relations"_ not sexual orientations. Translated from Russian to English, "sexual relations" refers to non traditional parental units, i.e. those that do not consist of a male + female. You may see here a discrimination against homosexuality but I see a legal framework for protection of a traditional family. LGBT individuals still have rights in this framework.

With respect to your anti-vaccine example. There is always a conflict between something that a minority may consider a right and the rule of the majority. There are minorities that want pedophilia to be made legal. Do you have a novel solution for the minority rights conflict? Traditionally rights for minorities have been won through struggle, societal change, and war among many other ways. Are you proposing a novel solution for LGBT rights in Russia?

Re:Google to close engineering office in Russia by unprepare on Friday December 12, 2014 @03:22PM (#8742470)
>or say that gay relationships are equal to heterosexual relationships in presence of minors.

Is it me, or is that the word 'say'?

>You may see here a discrimination against homosexuality but I see a legal framework for protection of a traditional family.

This is a direct contradiction. You cannot use law to legally protect one class of people without necessarily discriminating against those not in that class.

> There are minorities that want pedophilia to be made legal.

Weak example. Pedophilia has a direct victim (a child is unable to give consent)

>Do you have a novel solution for the minority rights conflict?

No, but it wouldnt be to ignore it as you would. This is so far from what the discussion is about I wonder why you are trying to sidetrack this

>Traditionally rights for minorities have been won through struggle, societal change, and war among many other ways. Are you proposing a novel solution for LGBT rights in Russia?

? this is pretty much nonsense? yeah, rights are won through societal change as you say - Many societies are changing to accept homosexuality, not sure what you're trying to get at here? Why would i be proposing a novel solution to gay rights?

Thanks for the discussion

Re:Google to close engineering office in Russia by JoeAltmaier on Friday December 12, 2014 @03:24PM (#8742480)
In free countries, minorities have right without struggle. We all are owed due process, free assembly and so on. This so-called conflict is made-up, where the majority imagines they are harmed by the private arrangements of the minority.