Economist om anti-homo-bevegelsen

I siste nummer av Economist skriver bladet både om fremgangen for homofiles rettigheter i USA og back-clashet i andre deler av verden, særlig Afrika. Fra den siste:

"Across Africa, and elsewhere in the world, politicians have found gay people a useful scapegoat to distract from corruption or other domestic problems, to shore up conservative constituencies, or to steal a march on political rivals. (...)

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, finds gay-bashing politically appealing. It runs together various favoured themes: that the West is a corrupting influence best rejected; that tolerance and liberalism are alien to traditional Russian values; that the Orthodox church should be given a more prominent role. (...)