ideally i think of the olympics as a festival during which everyone sets aside politics and just participates. except in an extreme instance.
do homosexual rights rise to this level?
some will argue they do.
for myself, i think the us will do best if it does its own thing and leaves others to evolve in their own time.
the us should be very careful about asserting what it perceives as its moral authority in the world.
this just provokes countries like russia into corresponding action eg the recent law to stop us adoptions of russian children after congress decided to pass laws about russians it doesn't like.
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