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One thing you can pretty much count on is the willingness of anti-gay propagandists to drag out every pseudoscientific and discredited study that alleges LGBT people are dangerous to children or others. That鈥檚 what鈥檚 happening in Russia.

Lawmaker Andrei Zhuravlyov in the lower house of the Russian Duma that would deny gay and lesbian parents custody of their children. 鈥淗arm that could be inflicted on a child鈥檚 mental health in case of their parents鈥� homosexual contacts is immense,鈥� Zhuravlyov asserted in a note attached to the legislation. To back this up, the bill cited the 2012 by University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus as proof that gay parenting is dangerous to children. Zhuravlyov claimed in his note that the Regnerus study鈥檚 findings were corroborated by unspecified 鈥渋ndependent experts.鈥�

Really?

Regnerus himself that his study isn鈥檛 really about LGBT parents at all, and hundreds of sociologists have sources (from large, anti-gay think tanks). The American Sociological Association in a March 2013 amicus brief to the Supreme Court. And, in a recent with the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Report, Southern Illinois University sociology professor Darren Sherkat, who exhaustively investigated how the study was approved at the request of the peer-reviewed academic journal that published it, said that he 鈥渃ompletely dismiss[ed] the study. It鈥檚 over. He [Regnerus] has been disgraced.鈥�

But that hasn鈥檛 stopped anti-gay groups here and abroad from touting the study as 鈥減roof鈥� that LGBT people are dangerous to children. Since its release, Regnerus has become a poster boy for the anti-gay right, and has attended and spoken at various anti-gay venues (see and ) and even to a little-noticed anti-gay amicus brief filed this past spring with the Supreme Court.

The proposed anti-gay parenting law comes on the heels of President Vladimir Putin鈥檚 June signing of two other anti-gay laws. One bans the adoption of Russian children by foreign LGBT parents and the other outlaws 鈥渉omosexual propaganda.鈥� Since the bills were signed, has against LGBT people and their supporters, sometimes backed by police, and some critics are calling for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games near the Black Sea in Russia.

Anti-gay sentiment over the past few years, fed by economic woes, government corruption, and crumbling infrastructures. The spate of anti-gay laws and sentiment is part of a crackdown the Russian government is imposing on dissenters. As Russian human rights lawyer Sergei Davidis , 鈥渢he goal 鈥� is to focus public anger on gays, blasphemers, and foreign-inspired agitators, to create this feeling that Russia is a besieged state.鈥� A lot of innocent people, Davidis added, 鈥渕ay suffer before it all unravels.鈥�