The implicit homophobia underlying these messages sends an alarming signal to any astute observer that homosexuality is simply not normal and homosexuals do not have any place with children.
We also have reservations, with others on the left, about mixing in a big tent with religious bigots who have unpleasant views on homosexuals and women.
It was a vital debate at the time since those who argued for the latter usually believed that homosexuals had opted for an easy life of wanton hedonism, and therefore did not deserve to be rewarded with gay sex being legal at 16.
Mike marvels at how times have changed for homosexuals in the metropolitan first world: "It is unbelievable, we have made such progress.
In the 1930s a German geneticist claimed to have found a gene shared by many male homosexuals.
It was like homosexuals in the 1960s who wouldn't say anything because they'd be sneered at".
A previous speaker had cribbed Obama in assuring the crowd that "Yes, we can rid Uganda of homosexuals.
Its TV news anchor is Dmitry Kiselev, described as Russia's chief propagandist with a record of attacking homosexuals, who said the project was aimed at a global audience "tired of aggressive propaganda promoting a unipolar world and who want a different perspective".
The Russian LGBT Network said the harassment of gay people was being organised nationally for the first time through groups known as Occupy Gerontophilia and Occupy Paedophilia, who claim to be trying to "reform" homosexuals.
Last month nationalist politician Dauren Babamuratov called for a ban on homosexuals serving in the civil service and the army.
Paranoia towards the outside world, ingrained prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuals, fundamentalist Roman Catholicism, climate change denial and hostility towards Germany are some of the views espoused by the Kaczy´nskis' party, which is out of sync with a dynamic, modernising Poland where 80% of people like the EU.
