Russian Lawyer Sees Illegal ‘Gay Propaganda’ In Tiger-Goat Friendship

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An unlikely friendship between Amur the tiger and Timur the goat -- who was originally meant to be the big cat's lunch -- became a viral sensation last year in Russia and beyond. Now a Siberian lawyer is interpreting the newly acquired popularity of the animals and their home, the Primorsky Safari Park in the Russian Far East, differently.

Aleksei Krestyanov says that Amur and Timur are a mouthpiece promoting "gay propaganda" to an audience of children – which is banned under a law signed by President Vladimir Putin in 2013 that barred the spread of "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" among minors.

Krestyanov wants the manager of the safari park to be prosecuted. "There is homosexuality in various forms among animals and among people, but in the Russian Federation a law against this propaganda was adopted," the lawyer said.

According to Krestyanov, a partner at a law firm in Novosibirsk, the two animals living together in the same cage are showing children that homosexuality is acceptable, because – in his estimation -- kids don’t differentiate between the world of people and the world of animals.
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We laugh, but it's not funny how open and deranged the homophobia is getting under Putin's encouragement in Russia

[Warpy]

1. Right, and here they fulminate about Tinky Winky and Spongebob Squarepants.

Puritans are always heavily into self satire.

[yardwork]

3. It's a little different in Russia, where people end up in jail because of this insane thinking.

It's one thing to fulminate against PBS. It's quite another to lose your life because the Russian government decides that the friendship of animals in your zoo means that you're breaking a law.

[Warpy]

5. They would if this country elected enough of them to Congress

and we all know it.

[yardwork]

6. No question about that.

[hifiguy]

2. Lay off the vodka, Ivan.

[davidn3600]

4. Two guys walking in Moscow holding hands.....