Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), traveled to Russia to testify in
favor of a law that bans foreign couples living in countries
where gay marriage is legal from adopting Russian born children. The
United States is one of the countries targeted by the law.
According to Right
Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way, Brown
testified before the legislative committee considering the
legislation.
“We have actually seen that in some
schools, they are talking to children about homosexuality,” Brown
said of the United States, “but in fact they don't have the right
to learn about a lot of things like that until a certain age.”
Brown diverted slightly in the
messaging he frequently uses, adding that children have a right to
“normal” parents, not just their biological family.
“I think that this visit, the
invitation to visit Russia, will enable the development of this
movement around the world. We will band together, we will defend our
children and their normal civil rights. Every child should have the
right to have normal parents: a father and a mother,” Brown said.
Brown went further in a television
interview, suggesting that laws aimed at discriminating against LGBT
people would help ward off “negative developments.”
“Right now you're having to fight
about adoption, but the adoption issue is indivisible from the
marriage issue,” Brown said. “If you don't defend your values
now, I'm afraid we're going to see very negative developments all
over the world.”