From LGBTQ Nation: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/08/putins-anti-gay-olympics-should-we-participate-and-condone-the-hate/
BARBARA WEICKSEL
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Much has been written about Russia, their new anti-gay laws and the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The debate: Should the U.S. go and compete, or should we boycott?
President Obama said Friday: “I do not think it’s appropriate to boycott the Olympics.”
So I suppose that means the U.S. will be going to Putin’s Russia.
The President wants us to win medals: “One thing I’m really looking forward to is maybe some gay and lesbian athletes bringing home the gold or silver or bronze, which I think would go a long way in rejecting the kind of attitudes we’re seeing there.”
Really?
Did Jesse Owens winning the gold change the attitude of Hitler and his killing of Jews, gypsies, gays and whoever else he deemed not worthy to live?
Of course it didn’t – just like the U.S. going to Putin’s Russia to win medals will make absolutely no difference in the treatment of homosexuals.
Allowing the Olympic Games to stay in Russia, and not boycotting, is telling the Russians that it’s okay they kill homosexuals. It doesn’t matter that they (the Russians) promise not to enforce their awful anti-gay law during the Olympics. What matters is that they have the law in the first place.
Perhaps it’s because the United States is so divided on the issue of gay rights that, as a country, we are so divided on the Russian anti-gay, Olympic issue.
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