http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/world-congress-families-russia-gay-rights
In November 2010, Russia's Sanctity of Motherhood organization kicked off its first-ever national conference. The theme, according to its organizers, was urgent: solving "the crisis of traditional family values" in a modernizing Russia. The day opened with a sextet leading 1,000 swaying attendees in a prayer. Some made the sign of the cross, others bowed or raised their arms to the sky before settling into the plush red and gold seats of the conference hall at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral.
so far sounds pretty much like a gop meeting.
On the second morning of the conference, the only American in attendance, a tall, collected man, stepped up for his speech. Larry Jacobs, vice president of the Rockford, Illinois-based World Congress of Families (WCF),an umbrella organization for the US religious right's heavy hitters, told the audience that American evangelicals had a 40-year track record of "defending life and family" and they hoped to be "true allies" in Russia's traditional values crusade.The gathering marked the beginning of the family values fervor that has swept Russia in recent years. Warning that low birth rates are a threat to the long-term survival of the Russian people, politicians have been pushing to restrict abortion and encourage bigger families.Among the movement's successes is a law that passed last summer and garneredglobal outrage in the run-up to the Sochi Winter Olympics, banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors," a vague term that has been seen as effectively criminalizing any public expression of same-sex relationships.
so keep 'em in the dark is the same as keeping them dumb down, as far as low birth rates aren't they in a way promoting it with their abortion laws, it can encourage not to have children or contraception purchases which is helping to dwindle the White population to minority status.
first off that is an oxymoron primarily because it's not propaganda, and it ignores those kids who may be struggling with their own identity again republican separatism strikes at those to young to handle misinformation.
Anti-gay groups have made tormenting the LGBT community a national and organized affair: Vigilante gangs have used social media to lure hundreds of gay people to fake dates and then disseminate videos of them being beaten or sexually humiliated, garnering hundreds of thousands of followers. Arrests and beatings at gay rights demonstrations are commonplace. This month, LGBT activistswere arrested in Moscow and St. Petersburg hours before the Olympic opening ceremony and have been detained in Sochi itself.
HOW THE WORLD CONGRESS TOOK RUSSIA
The Sanctity of Motherhood conference represented a homecoming of sorts for WCF, which was conceived in Russia in 1995. Since the Soviet Union's collapse, two sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anatoly Antonov and Victor Medkov, had been watching with mounting concern as marriage and birth rates fell precipitously—this was not how capitalism was supposed to play out. But they thought they knew who could help.They turned to Allan Carlson, president of the Illinois-based Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, a historian who made his name studying family policy, earning an appointment to President Reagan's National Commission on Children.
and they ran around like headless chickens when Pres. tried to talk to kids about staying in school they called it indoctrination. also note the Russians went to this guy for advice on family matters how ironically ridiculous is that?
