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The anti-gay laws are there not because the Russian government is homophobic. These laws were created to provoke reactions like this or http://youtu.be/0KWhaqr1v8s which will help to turn some strata of the Russian population firmly against the West and prepare ground for the new Iron Curtain. Thank you Google for helping Putin!

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But to be fair, Google isn't the only one doing stupid stuff like this. Read this piece slowly and see if you notice what I noticed: http://www.alternet.org/world/us-evangelicals-fueled-rise-ru...

What I noticed was that while the author was male, with the exception of Medvedev (whose position on abortion he didn't talk about), every politician he attacked in the Russian government on the abortion issue was a woman. Evidently Russian women (according to Alternet and The Nation) cannot be trusted with setting abortion policy: that role must fall to Western men....

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