Vladimir Putin: Marriage Is Purely Man And Woman
VLADIMIR PUTIN – Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that marriage is purely a heterosexual union.
According to GMA, Putin also supported the idea of enshrining the notion in Russia’s updated constitution.
At a meeting with a committee appointed by the Kremlin discussing new amendments to the nation’s constitution, Putin said that “a marriage is a union of a man and woman,”
“This is the right idea and it should be supported. We need to only think about how to formulate it and where,”
The Russian president said this after Olga Batalina, a conservative solon, said that the country’s constitution should uphold traditional family values.
“This is not fantasy, this is reality in some countries,”
Batalina is a senior lawmaker in the majority United Russia party who aims for the country’s ban on foreign adoptions and a “gay propaganda” law which, in practice, outlawed LGBT activism.
“As long as I’m president, we won’t have (parent number one and parent number two). We will have ‘dad’ and ‘mom’,”
As per the report, on January, Putin announced that Russia needed changes to the constitution which was written in 1993 and hired a commitee of dozens of solons and celebrities to come up with ideas.
On Thursday, in a televised meeting, members advised putting phrases about Russia being a “peacemaking state” for humans in the constitution, as well as a country that was victorious in World War II.
Yelena Isinbayeva, a committee member and bagged the world record in the pole vault, admitted she had never read the constitution before being tapped by the president to join the group.
“Thank you for the opportunity, I have finally read the constitution, before there was no need. Now I understand it’s a very important book,”
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