Originally Posted by
Shalcker
Still, ~ 4 out of 9 supported the idea.
Looking at later posts, it seems that you had sleight of hand performed... first your courts decided that marriage is human right, then because your Constitution protects human rights by another court decision it became protected by Constitution rather then federal law.
When same thing was tried in Russian Constitutional Court (because it's not like noone was watching what was happening in US - and it is our equivalent of Supreme Court), it said that no, in Russia it isn't right, it is privilege given by law (as Takhisis notes), with legislators deciding who is or isn't eligible for it - and currently that is only offered to union of man and woman.
Well, law was created in the first place because that actually happened - homosexual activists came to school and preached to teenagers. Parents got a word about it, complained to legislators, and local legislators banned the practice in Saint-Petersburg specifically.
And because that came as nation-wide scandal (as activists pushed it to front pages of country-wide media in attempt to promote progressive agenda), and polls were quite certain in what was public sentiment, Russian Duma legislators decided to enshrine it as general law for political points.
That's how political change works in Russia - you push things to forefront, you get consequences - sometimes more then you bargained for.
And this specific law was created because parents have shown obvious and well-proven distress when their children were exposed to propaganda - which led to law banning the practice to protect them.
Just like we can differ in definitions of what is and isn't "human right", so can we differ in which situations are or aren't considered harm.
As far as i see, by same logic considering marriage to only be a thing between man and woman harms noone too. It's just a law, a fact of life, a privilege given to specific case like thousands of others - like support of people in poverty, or veterans.
We have plenty of more numerous groups that could (and occasionally do) ask for special treatment; they mostly don't get it.
Those are entertwined.