St. Petersburg, September 13, 2010 - Interfax
Representatives of parent organizations ask authorities to ban the gay pride parade planned by sexual minorities for September 16-25 in Petersburg.
"They failed to conquer Moscow by holding a gay pride march there, and like the fascists in 1941, they have focused all their effort on the city on the Neva [River, St. Petersburg]. Just as before, a "blue" (the Russian word for gay is "blue") division is moving to the "Northern capital," only this time it's not a "blue-blood" Aryan race," Russia's Council of Parents and Association of Parent Committees and Communities told the country's authorities in their open letter.
Its authors note that in fact "an open, legalized and effective promotion of vice and depravity" will take place in the city for ten days, enough time "to destroy the souls of thousands children and teens." They point out that many "international sodomite organizations, notorious gays and lesbians" have already backed the festival.
"We are not ready to tolerate preachers of filth and perversion in our country, as they have always been considered shameful in Russia. People who live with this passion should not bring their spiritual illness out in the streets of our cities and infect our children with it," the letter reads.
