Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Says Athletes Should 'Relax' About Anti-Gay Law

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Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko on Thursday told visiting athletes to “relax” about his country's law which prohibits “gay propaganda.”
Reuters reported that Mutko was asked how the legislation would affect athletes competing in this weekend's IAAF championships and next year's winter Olympics to be held in Sochi.
“I want to ask you to calm down as in addition to this law we have a constitution that guarantees all citizens a private life,” Mutko told reporters in Moscow.
“It is not intended to deprive people of any religion, race or sexual orientation but to ban the promotion of non-traditional relations among the young generation.”
Russia's “gay propaganda” law, signed last month by President Vladimir Putin, prohibits the public promotion of gay rights in a venue where minors might be present, effectively outlawing everything from Gay Pride marches to the wearing of a rainbow pin in public.
“All the athletes and organizations should be relaxed, their rights will be protected,” he said.
Mutko, however, made headlines earlier when he said that the law would be enforced at Sochi.
“No one is banning an athlete with a non-traditional sexual orientation from going to Sochi. But if he goes out onto the street and starts to make propaganda, then, of course, he will be brought to responsibility,”

The International Association of Athletics Federations has urged Russia to reconsider its views on gay rights, but IAAF President Lamine Diack said Thursday the federation did not want to raise political issues about the law.
"I don't have the feeling there is a problem whatsoever,"Diack said. "There is a law that exists. The law has to be respected. Some things have to be respected. We are here for the world championships."
I fully expect Mutko to take the stance he has, hoping to sweep this all under the rug...that's what politicians do.
More worrisome is Lamine Diack's assertion that Russia's laws have to be respected, I say, like hell they do, I have zero respect for any political regime that persecute any minority for whatever reason.
Homosexuals are being singled out as scapegoats (once again) for a heterosexuals  inability to accept responsibility for their own children or in this case, lack thereof.
In this particular circumstance, it's a direct result in a political movement to repair the erosion of heterosexual unions resulting in marriage and family.
Yup, homosexuals are being held responsible because young straight people in Russia aren't making babies or waiting much later in life to start families.
What power we fags wield, not only do we control the weather we now have the power to destroy countries by limiting their population growth with the sheer force of our existance!