The night before the rally, Patriarch Ilia II, the Church's leader, called homosexuality "an anomaly and a disease"; he has since failed to condemn behavior of his priests, dismissing it as merely "impolite".
"It's a great study," says sociologist Adam Galinsky of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who has shown that those with power are more apt to condemn behavior that they themselves engage in.
Two Communist Party elders publicly condemned his behavior.
But even as some condemned the behavior of the police, other black men and women interviewed praised Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
The connection of public bathrooms with condemned sexual behavior also relates to our recent history of criminalizing homosexuality.
Donna Marie Artuso, vice president of the National Association for Biomedical Research, which defends the use of animals in laboratories, said that Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's founder, had "never condemned violent behavior by animal extremists".
Since 2007, a widely used high school history textbook for teachers, developed by the Kremlin, has openly praised Stalin's wartime leadership and condemned Allied behavior as perfidious.
Leaders quickly apologized, condemned the behavior, suspended all the members of the fraternity and said the chant was not an SAE tradition.
"Having criticized and condemned his behavior, I could not possibly tell you how to vote in this election, but…" he said as he let his voice trail off and the crowd whoop itself into a frenzy.
