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Russia's 100-Ruble Banknote With Naked Apollo Image Is Pornographic?
Posted by Ron
Friday, July 11th 2014 @ 12:26:12 PM EST

A Russian politician is referencing his country's "gay propaganda" law in hopes of overhauling the design of a banknote he's deemed pornographic.

Roman Khudyakov, a member of parliament for the nationalist LDPR party, wants to change Russia's 100-ruble banknote (worth less than $3), which depicts an image of a statue of Apollo that appears atop the Bolshoi Theater, Reuters originally reported. Khudyakov said he opposes the design because "you can see clearly that Apollo is naked, you can see his genitalia."

In point of fact, the homophobic Russian Government covered up Apollo's genitals with a fig leave in 2011.

Apparently, homophobia is a mind disease that infects religious and political wingnuts alike. Imagine putting a fig leaf on Michelangelo's David or repainting the Sistine Chapel to removed the nudity.

And the subterfuge is always about "protecting the children." Apparently, in their minds, the sight of the male penis causes a little child to develop a sexual craving for gay sex.

The root [no pun intended] of all reactionary movements, religious or political, is to erase historical fact and paint the world they way they think it should be in their narrow minds. Seeing does not make one gay or straight. I've seen dozens of paintings and statues of nude women, and not one has turned me away from being happily and thoroughly gay. To see a photo of the Apollo Statue in the Apollo Forums, Click Here.

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