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			<title>jamal49 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Perhaps we can convince the American religious right extremists to emigrate en masse to the Ukraine. It seems to be a country more in line with the evangie-fundies ' worldview. Seriously, though, what is happening in the Ukraine is the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church using their power and control to incite their adherents to a bigoted, homophobic frenzy. Sadly, mediocre and immoral Russian politicians are going along with those Churches and the intolerance for LGBTQ people that those Churches promote.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jamal49</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:29:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Todd Williams says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have either heard or read somehere that the Nazi death camp guards considered to be the most brutal were Ukranian. Is this true?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Todd Williams</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:07:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>carolsj says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Actually Rush is the hypocrite, having Elton play at his wedding. How can he rave homophobic after that?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>carolsj</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:18:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Dave_s Not Here says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey, give Sir Elton a break. He DID lighten Rush's wallet and that's a good thing.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dave_s Not Here</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:06:01 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Todd Williams says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ah, yes. The Nazi view of the world. Now class, let's substitute Jew for Gay. How about Muslim for Gay? Or try on Christian for Gay. Prejudice cannot be covered up. Predjudice will creep out and be revealed for all its sickness. Yea, let's get all those queers to leave Ukraine and move elsewhere. Oh, they don't want to leave their country? Well then, let's set up special areas for them to live within Ukraine. We could call these places "reservations" or maybe "camps." Sound familiar, brucbaker, you damn gay basher?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Todd Williams</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RobertMStahl says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gary Null on AIDS, Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS (not that science matters) More recently, House of Numbers, but just as good, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwgmzbnckII]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RobertMStahl</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:49:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jamesohara says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just a point of information Indonesia does not ban gays - sex is permitted as a free choice for anyone over the age of consent.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jamesohara</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:58:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Dave_s Not Here says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Didn't they learn ANYTHING as a result of German occupation and Russian hegemony in the last century? My mom's family was from the wrong side of the tracks in the Ukraine back then and, after the German army was through their village twice, none of them remained. Now they want to do shit like this to themselves? How unbelievably thick they are.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dave_s Not Here</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:42:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bigfella says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From report here it seem that they have a NAZI problem that is being backed by some in the Government. It is a very dangous place for normal people but deadly for those who are different.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bigfella</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:31:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>btbees says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Let us remember Matthew Sheppard, died Oct 12, 1998, tortured and murdered in USA for being gay.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>btbees</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:39:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>hammermann says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I must say, the numbers of violent homophobes is very small in Ukraine, although gays remain pretty unpopular. I went to that concert, 4 1/2 hours of Elton + a rejuvinated Queen... and it was magic. Paid for by oligarch Pinchuk- sometimes the scraps they dribble on the people are pretty wonderful.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>hammermann</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:18:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>brucbaker says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[People may not like it ... People probably should NOT agree with it .. but for a group of people to have the FREEDOM to limit the behaviors and create laws to that effect .. is the opposite end of the spectrum to balance out the PUSH for Gay rights. For every POSITIVE THERE IS A NEGATIVE. Argue all you like... but For every extremist pushing gay rights the opposite number of that person is created so the UNIVERSE will again find balance. Gays ... are ... A... MINORITY! THEY live in a world of heterosexuals. Nature may be trying to CURB the over-population of the human race with more gays .. but in the end .. gays will always be the minority. Life is simple ... if you can't live in that country... go somewhere else. Just look at how humans have migrated all over the world... and you get a CLUE!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>brucbaker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:14:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>wyrdotter says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What of it? Any country's people can determine what they consider legal, but they also get to live with the consequences, such as not having the support or the income from countries that disagree. By your very own argument, we have the same sovereign right to decide not to play on the playground with "kids" whose games we find immoral as they do to decide to play those games.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>wyrdotter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:01:58 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Lisa Moskow says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you. Oppression against one is oppression against all.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Lisa Moskow</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:00:02 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You have a point, Ted, regardless of how distasteful laws and policies can be. It may not be the best attitude or approach to homosexuals, but countries are sovereign, as you say. The U.S. cannot control every aspect of every country. I'll bet, though, there are rabid supporters of the phobia that would encourage bombing these countries. Heck. They just might also have oil and other natural resources.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:51:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>anarchteacher says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[http://stonewall-az-libertarians.info/content/Raico%20booklet%20on%20Gay%20Rights.pdf Gay Rights: A Libertarian Approach This classic pamphlet was written in 1975 by the award-winning historian Ralph Raico. It presents the exact case Sir Elton John was putting forth in his article. Gay rights are the rights of human beings who are gay. These natural rights are universal within the human species and are inalienable by the tyrannical actions of the state. It is the state who has traditionally been the principal enemy of gay persons for millennia. The latest specific examples of abuse of human rights in the Ukraine Sir Elton singles out are egregious and should be condemned by all who stand for peace, prosperity, liberty, and justice.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>anarchteacher</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:16:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jwb110 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Ukrainians will will make the same mistake that the US did in the beginning of the AIDS Crisis in America. They will deny and surpress and stick their heads in the sand until they find out it is not a "gay" disease. It is a disease that strikes across all divides. The rise in cases of HIV will rise among the "straight" population probably faster than the "gay" population as it did in the US. They'll do too little too late and suffer the consequences of their prejudice. Why do all "Democracies" feel the need to find one group to hate?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jwb110</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:03:35 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>TedN says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In many Muslim countries, including Arab, African and Indonesia, homosexuality is illegal. Are we going to embargo every country that does not agree with our belief that Gay Rights= Human Rights? What of democracy and culture and a nations sovereign rights to determine by its people what they consider legal?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>TedN</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:37:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>tomtom says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Elton, we Americans were surprised to see you play at one of our loudest homophobes, Rush Limbaugh's wedding. That set America back a few years. But, we still love you.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tomtom</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:28:57 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Joeconserve says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From the American point of view all humans are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Beyond that criteria nobody is special.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joeconserve</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:06:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>BatOutOfHell says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well then, Sir Elton, why do you continue an association with Rush Limbaugh, a rabid right wing sociopath who hates America, gays, average folks, and for whom you played music at his wedding? WHY? One would think you wouldn't consort with hypocrites. If you're so for gay rights, then STOP enabling the right wingnuts here, and across the world. Until then, your words mean NOTHING.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BatOutOfHell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:56:36 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Rich Austin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine was visited by a “religious” group from the USA. Watchmen on the Walls is a homophobic “Christian” organization with ties to Holocaust deniers. It toured Russia and Latvia to spread its anti-gay venom. They have klaverns in Sacramento, Portland and Seattle. The anti-gay tactics of homophobic evangelicals in the U.S. branch of the Watchmen movement are just as crude and even more physically abusive than Fred Phelps' infamous Westboro Baptist Church, and they're rooted in gay-bashing theology that's even more hardcore than the late Jerry Falwell's. Anti-gay talk radio hosts and fundamentalist preachers routinely deliver hateful screeds on the airwaves and from the pulpit. Ex-Ukrainians affiliated with the Watchmen murdered Satendar Singh, a 26 year gay Indian-American in a park near Sacramento. But make no mistake about it, scourge Watchmen is a product of the US. One of its founders is former NFL player-turned-h atemonger Rev. Ken Hutcherson. Hutcherson discovered that ministering to a gullible, emotionally confused flock could be quite lucrative, especially after he assumed the persona of a strict father figure who demanded blind allegiance and generous tithing. Human rights are human rights. There! That is it! The only price of admission is being born homo sapiens! Gay rights, therefore, are human rights, despite what homophobes or hypocritical lawmakers...or demented “men of God” assert.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rich Austin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:46:58 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Barkingcarpet says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Agreed, and, what is your definition of a democracy, as well as which countries do you consider to be such? America is not one currently, and it is debatable if it ever has been one, at least not for blacks, women, native Americans, poor people, etc.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Barkingcarpet</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:37:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>grouchy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sounds primitive until I remember we were (are) there just a few years ago--and still are in a good part of the U.S. We have little going for us to look down our noses at other nations about this.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>grouchy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:28:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Reductio Ad Absurdum says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Don't kid yourselves, the right wing political forces in America would be happy if the same proposed laws were passed here, even as they trumpet "freedom," absolutely oblivious to the contradiction.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Reductio Ad Absurdum</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:18:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>anntares says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The NY Times carried an article about scientific research in 1980 or 1981 that proved an embryo receives hormones about 3-4 days after conception... sometimes a male embryo gets too much estrogen or too little testosterone or a female embryo embryo gets too much testosterone or too little estrogen. The criminalization is the crime. We wouldn't criminalize someone born with darker pigmentation, would we? No, we'd just enslave them or, if that's too old-fashioned, just ensure they get un-equal opportunities.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>anntares</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:39:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jerryball says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So, the Ukraine is about to discriminate against approximately 3,000,000 of their citizens for being who they are? When you break down the numbers it IS a travesty. It's not just the queen down the street, but go up into the millions. They are a product of their Soviet Masters.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jerryball</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:34:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jimmyaloha says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Democratic countries need to pull all trade/aid from Ukraine.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jimmyaloha</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:13:20 -0800</pubDate>
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