On a recent Russian political TV show on the Russian parliament's TV channel, deputy spokesman for the Russian Church, Vakhtang Kipshidze lashed out at The Council of Europe's criticism of Russia's recent decision to ban any kind of promotion of LGBT propaganda. Previously Russian law had prohibited spreading of such propaganda to minors. Now it will be extended to any promotion to anyone.

The Council is an un-elected body, and does not have legislative power, and serves more as a lobbying and PR organization. It has become a symbol of out-of-control EU bureaucracy with a staggering budget of EURO 500 million, spent by bureaucrats accountable only to their political patrons in their home countries, not to the people. It is home to the European Court of Human Rights. The whole structure has been captured by the globalist elite, pushes a radical-left social agenda, and has very little credibility internationally. Russia left the Council in March of this year after hostilities broke out in Ukraine.

In the run-up to the new legislation, the chairman of the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, put a poll on his Telegram channel asking Russians if they thought it should be passed. An astounding 1.7 million people responded, with 71% supporting it, and 25% against, and there were 73,000 comments, most of them emphatically insisting on it.

Russian public opinion has turned sharply against prevailing liberal ideas in Europe and the US, and Russian media and politicians routinely ridicule the 'wokeness' of the West.

Here are Kipshidze's remarks, video below:

When one or another political dogma, a political maxim, becomes the only possible one, we are no longer talking about political discourse, we are dealing with a kind of quasi-religious worldview, a kind of liberal inquisition, where there is one opinion, or rather, their opinion, and everyone else is wrong.

We're not going to talk to the Council of Europe about dogmatics, that's not political debate. Let us Russians determine for ourselves what sin and righteousness are.

It seems to me, thank God, that these results (of the poll) published by the Chairman of the State Duma (parliament) speak for themselves. They show that our people think about this in accordance with Christian civilization.

Here is the full interview (in Russian):