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PETERSBURG, December 4th - RIA Novosti
Cyril stockings. The Constitutional Court (CC) of the Russian Federation refused a gay activist Nikolai Alekseev a complaint to the St. Petersburg law banning propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors; the judge considered that the law is not contrary to the Constitution, according to the materials of the court

Adopted in May 2010 in St. Petersburg "antigeysky" law established administrative liability for actions that may form the children an idea of the equivalence of traditional and nontraditional marriage relations.

Refer to the CC gay activist Alekseev called the ban "based on prejudice" and said that the law discriminates citizens "non-heterosexual orientation».

COP explained that, under the Constitution, motherhood, childhood and the family are under state protection. And as the exercise of the rights and freedoms must not violate rights and freedoms of other persons, the legislator is obliged to "take measures to protect the child from information, propaganda and agitation harmful to his health, moral and spiritual development." It is a measure of such protection became a much-talked-Petersburg "antigeysky" law.

As pointed out by the COP, in the case of a gay activist campaigning took place precisely because, as previously explained, the court, the agitation is different from the information that "is intended to induce or encourage the subjects of legal relations to a certain behavior." Just a high concentration of children on matters of sexual relations and the child is able to deform the presentation on the role and value of relationships in life, according to the COP.

In addition, the Constitutional Court rejected the accusations gay activist in St. Petersburg lawmakers address discrimination based on sexual orientation, noting that the statutory prohibition applies to all persons, without exception.