“There are basic ingredients for happiness, I believe they’re universal: family, children and parents. We see how these foundations are being eroded . . .”
The head of Russia’s upper house of parliament says that allowing homosexual couples to adopt children would lead to the extinction of humanity.
Russia banned homosexual couples from adopting children in 2013.
“What will allowing same-sex couples to adopt children lead to? It’ll simply lead to the extinction of mankind,” Valentina Matvienko, the head of the upper-house Federation Council, told a government-sponsored youth forum outside Moscow earlier today.
Source: Summit News
“There are basic ingredients for happiness, I believe they’re universal: family, children and parents. We see how these foundations are being eroded,” she added.
The comments are markedly different from the west’s approach to homosexual adoption, where it is legal in most countries.
However, in Italy, which is currently ruled by a populist government, homosexual adoption is still not permissible.
The gulf between how Russia and most western countries view so-called “progressive values” appears to be widening.
Last month, Vladimir Putin commented on a similar topic, asserting that liberalism was in its death throes thanks to forced multiculturalism.
“The ruling elites have broken away from the people,” Putin told the Financial Times, adding that the “so-called liberal idea has outlived its purpose”.