Russian newscast uses fake video to claim U.S. kids indoctrinated into homosexuality

So, now we may have a clearer picture of Dave Agema's fondness for Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Agema, the Republican National Committee member who's associated with homophobic and bigoted commentary, said last year that he supports Putin's anti-gay propaganda laws.

Now, the folks at Vox.com explain in plain detail just how virulently anti-gay the state-run Russian media has become.

Here's a bit of the story:

"Russia's second-largest TV channel, the state-owned Rossiya-1, has aired a special news report alleging that Western society is indoctrinating its children with homosexual propaganda. While this sort of accusation is nothing new from Russian state media, Rossiya-1 presents, as its proof, a video that it says shows an American father covering his young son's bedroom wall with gay pornography as a way to force the child into homosexuality, purportedly a widespread Western practice.

"In fact, however, the video that Rossiya-1 shows is not documentary news footage, but a satirical and obviously fake viral video taken from the American social media site, 4chan. Here's the relevant clip.

"... Russian state media has increasingly smothered Russians with the idea that Americans and Western Europeans are sexual perverts and weaklings out to destroy families. In 2012, when Vladimir Putin's government passed a law forbidding American families from adopting Russian orphans, one of the justifications was that American parents were sexually exploiting the children or forcing them into homosexuality. The Rossiya-1 host refers to this as America's 'gender fascism.'"

So, don't be surprised if Agema and the cretins who support him start using the phrase "gender fascism" -- and don't forget where it was first propagated.