A draft law has been put on the table in Russia suggesting that gay couples will be stripped of their children, placing homosexuality in the same category as drug use and child abuse reports The Guardian.
Alexei Zhuravlyov, author of the draft, has said, “In the case when a parent has sexual contact with people of their own gender, the damage that can be inflicted on the psyche of a child is enormous.”
It is not clear how likely Zhuravlyov’s proposal has of becoming law, but it follows other legislation signed by Putin that activists proclaim as discriminatory against homosexuals.
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