BBC sneer as Putin backs proper marriage

by Will Jones, The Conservative Woman:

President Putin moves to support traditional marriage by adding it to the Russian constitution and, predictably, the UK’s ‘impartial public service broadcaster’ paints it in as negative a light as possible.

Apparently unable to accept that another country might hold different values from their own, the BBC insist it cannot be to do ‘with reflecting current values in society’ (even though they admit  these are ‘populist’, i.e. popular, measures) but with ‘creating talking points’ that conceal Putin’s power grab ‘to remain in a position of influence or power after 2024’. 

How about Putin really believes in this, and knows Russians do too? He was after all encouraged by lawmaker Olga Batalina, deputy president of the Duma Committee on Family Policy – a youngish woman, and oddly absent from the BBC story despite their usual keenness to feature the oppressed sex, but only when they have the correct views, it seems – to enshrine man-woman marriage in the constitution to protect against the unwelcome innovations seen elsewhere.

At a meeting to discuss the constitutional changes, Batalina said the family is under attack from attempts to introduce terms such as ‘parent number one’ and ‘parent number two.’

Putin responded: ‘As far as “parent number 1” and “parent number 2” goes, I’ve already spoken publicly about this and I’ll repeat it again: As long as I’m president this will not happen. There will be dad and mum.’ 

This reflects more than just Christian moral sentiment, welcome though that is, but a practical concern too. Putin, like other Western leaders, will have his eye on the Russian fertility rate, which had earlier seen a small recovery and rallied.

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