The war on "gay propaganda" is happening in America too

When the "It Gets Better" project was taking the media world by storm, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins wrote the following about the effort and its supposed goals:

Because to Tony, it's "appalling" and "disgusting" to simply tell LGBT youth that life, no matter how hard it is now, will someday get better.  Not a huge surprise, considering he's compared his own kids' theoretical homosexuality to drug abuse. 

But Tony was not alone in condemning the "It Gets Better" (IGB) project.  Concerned Women For America's Penny Nance, who has referred to gay teens as "probably troubled kids in a number of ways" and spoken against their self-acceptance, condemned an "IGB" ad as a "new tolerance for homosexuals campaign disguised as anti-bullying." When a popular primetime program ran the ad, Nance wrote that the show "lured us into a false sense of security and broke trust with us last night."  Because, again, apparently telling LGBT youth that they are okay is out of line to Nance and Perkins.  It's propaganda, if you will.

Vladimir Putin Signs Law Banning Promotion Of 'Homosexual Propaganda'

It's a sad day for our LGBT brothers and sisters in Russia. Today, President Vladimir Putin signed into law the disgusting bill banning the promotion of "homosexual propaganda" among minors. RIA Novosti reports:

Gay propaganda with the use of mass media or Internet resources will see harsher penalties of 50,000-100,000 rubles ($1,520-3,050) for individuals, 100,000-200,000 rubles ($3,050-6,115) for officials and 1 million rubles or 90-day suspension for legal entities.

While the law's proponents argue it is aimed at protecting children from harmful influences, critics allege the move is part of a broader crackdown on Russia's gay community.

Even before the law's passage, international human rights organizations had publicly expressed their concerns that the antigay bill will be used to target openly LGBT Olympians at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Putin, meanwhile, attempted to downplay accusations of antigay bigotry by claiming sexual minorities are "full fledged members of our society and are not being discriminated against in any way." Putin should tell that to the dozens of gay rights supporters who were arrested at a bloody clash in St. Petersburg yesterday.