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Russia's intolerance is more a cultural issue than a religious one, as your response indicates. But religion permeates culture, even if only as a historic residue of conditioning. Many of the laws that discriminate against gay people in a large number of nations are a legacy of colonial rule...

Ice cold farmhouse cider for me. That was not available in Australia. So I agree with your last sentence.

I'd be interested, and not as an antagonist, who you consider them to be, and why.

I recently read that homosexuality is illegal in 81 countries. Often punished very harshly, and in most leading to cultural isolation. The situation in Russia is very difficult for some people, but far more bearable than most of those. These issues are all too often raised in an arbitrary way.

Or maybe we should be denied entry to the World Cup until we can explain why we invaded a country on the pre-text they had threatening weaponry, and had the intention of using it, only to find they didn't, and set off a chain of events that has made the world a far less stable place, ultimately...