Gay Star News reports today that a trial court in Russia has backed last year's decision by the Russian Ministry of Justice to refuse the registration of the NGO that planned to organize a "PRIDE House" for gay and lesbian athletes at the 2014
Winter Olympics in Sochi. The court wrote in part:
The aims of the organization contradict the basics of public morality and the policy of the state in the area of family motherhood and childhood protection. The activities of the [Pride House] movement leads to propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation which can undermine the security of the Russian society and the state, provoke social-religious hatred, which is the feature of the extremist character of the activity.
Moreover it can undermine the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation due to the decrease of Russia’s population.
Such aims as creating an understanding of the necessity to fight against homophobia and the creation of positive attitudes towards LGBT sportsmen contradicts with the basics of public morality because they are directed towards the increase of the number of citizens of sexual minorities which breaches the understanding of good and evil, good and bad, vice and virtue.
A successful
PRIDE House was created in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics there.
