Vladimir Putin: If Gay People Marry, Russians Will Stop Having Children - The New Civil Rights Movement

Vladimir Putin insists the if his country made same-sex marriage legal, a demographic nightmare would ensue, causing a huge population drop because Russians would stop having babies. This ludicrous public policy was revealed in a lengthy profile of the relationship between Russian President Vladimir Putin and UK Prime Minister David Cameron, published this past weekend by the London Daily Mail.

The revelation came in 2013 during a conversation between the two heads of state. Cameron was in the middle of pushing for same-sex marriage while Putin was ramping up his anti-gay homophobia and enshrining it into law.

"The conversation takes a bizarre twist and they end up having a ‘bickerfest’ about gay rights, both wanting to have the last word," the Daily Mail reports.
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Putin's statement is similar to ugly theories of a "demographic winter" popularized several years ago by the religious right, including Maggie Gallagher. Their idea is conservatives have to make more babies than liberals in order to ensure conservative ideals are propagated by more people – as if everyone born into conservative families stays conservative.

Vladimir Putin: If Gay People Marry, Russians Will Stop Having Children - The New Civil Rights Movement

Pat Robertson: Stop the church-state separation ‘nonsense’ before atheists take over everything

On Thursday, Robertson praised Grieve’s rejection of atheism and wished “we could have some more of that here in the United States.”

“This nonsense about the separation of church and state has gotten way, way beyond the bounds of what the Founders of our Constitution thought,” Robertson opined. “We’re under assault by militant Islamists, militant atheists, secularists, those who want to destroy all the fabric of faith in our society. And the great freedoms we have found on our belief in God.”

The TV preacher later blamed the “elites” for mistakenly thinking that “we just cannot be intolerant of Islamic people, their faith is as good as anybody else’s faith. And they’re entitled to express their views. They’re entitled to have their call to worship out of their mosque. They’re entitled to do this and do that and do the other.”

Robertson warned that the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal was “world domination,” and that they had already infiltrated “the highest counsels of the security apparatus of the United States of America advising our leaders as to how to deal with terrorism.”

Pat Robertson: Stop the church-state separation ‘nonsense’ before atheists take over everything