Thu Jun 9, 2022 – 5:32 pm EDT
MOSCOW (LifeSiteNews) — Lawmakers introduced a new law into Russia’s State Duma on Tuesday that would impose fines on people and organizations that promote non-traditional sexual relations.
According to Russia Today, the bill explains that “family, motherhood and childhood in their traditional understanding, which comes from our ancestors, are the values that ensure the continuous change of generations, act as a condition for the preservation and development of a multinational people, and therefore need special state protections.”
In light of this need for “special state protections,” the bill would impose fines ranging from $660 USD to $160,000 USD for the creation of material that promotes or seeks to form “non-traditional sexual attitudes, the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations, a distorted idea of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations, and the imposition of information about non-traditional sexual relations, causing interest in such relations.”
The bill also details that while the state has a duty to protect minority groups, “at the same time, the threats arising from the imposition of foreign standards that break the generally accepted way of life in the field of family and marriage
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