Madonna takes on Russian Orthodox Church over gay rights

Various attempts to hold gay rights events in Moscow, which authorities have
ruled illegal, resulted in multiple arrests and clashes with ultra-Orthodox
believers. These believers claim that homosexuals should be punished or
receive treatment in hospital for their “illness”.

Madonna has already clashed with the Orthodox Church after the church’s
activists protested against her singing “Live to Tell” while
strung up on a crucifix and wearing a crown of thorns during a 2006 concert
in Moscow.

However, this time she has also been slammed as a ‘hypocrite’ by organisers of
gay pride events.

“We intend to protest against the hypocrisy of pop stars. In Russia they
have fantastic earnings and this allows them to forget about the problems of
human rights,” Yuri Gavrikov, head of St Petersburg’s Gay Russia
movement, told AFP.

“If people like Madonna boycott their concerts, particularly in St
Petersburg, that could have economic consequences, and that is important,
while declarations of support for gay rights at concerts mean nothing.”
The European Court of Human Rights fined Russia in 2010 for banning
homosexual parades in Moscow.

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