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German Sterligov bans gays from his Russian store chains. An
influential multi-millionaire store owner has banned homosexuals
as the state declines to take action.

Causing disconcert are the actions of ‘devoutly’ religious
Russian millionaire, German Sterligov who has plastered signs in
front of chain stores that he owns banning homosexual customers
from entering his business.

Reads a sign to one of Sterligov’s natural food stores, ‘Bread
and Salt,’ in central Moscow, ‘No entry for f***ots’.

The banning comes despite a report via news.com.au pointing out
that Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993, two years
after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Despite Russian law prohibiting sexual discrimination,
prejudices still run deep with much of the gay community
existing underground.

Previous reports tell of Sterligov, 50, an orthodox Jew becoming
a millionaire after opening a mercantile exchange shortly before
the Soviet Union’s demise.

From there, the nationalist businessman turned devoutly

religious before retreating with his family to rural Russia to
sell organic farm produce. The former protege of Russia’s young
market economy dropped out of the business world and started
raising sheep and other livestock on two farms.

‘Our planet is full of filth and sick humans,’ Sterligov told
Reuters Television at a country fair outside Moscow.

Adding, ‘In front of our eyes is the historical experience of
Sodom and Gomorrah when God burned these towns.’

Addressing the farm fair, Sterligov praised President Donald
Trump, who since taking office has revoked his predecessor
Barack Obama’s landmark guidance to public schools allowing
transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice.

‘We thank him. May God give him health,’ Sterligov said.

Responding to retail chain’s disregard for the law and
antagonistic rebuke, Yulia Gorbunova, a Human Rights Watch
researcher, said the retailer’s measure sent a dangerous message
in a country where homophobia remains prevalent.

‘It seems like they are promoting homophobia in an already
homophobic society and it only leads to rising tensions,’ she
told Reuters Television. ‘The state certainly has a
responsibility to stop that and step in.’

Alyona, a young assistant in one of Sterligov’s Moscow stores,
said she shared the chain’s stance on homosexuals ‘as a true
Christian’.

‘It’s our guarding talisman,’ she said.

Define Christianity?

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has denied he discriminates
against sexual minorities. Nevertheless it is not necessarily
understood if any measures have been adopted against the overt
discrimination of gay customers at Sterligov’s stores and how
this too might foster other outlets to adopt similar measures?

Noted a previous report via the moscowtimes after German added a
sign at one of his stores in St Petersburg in April: ‘LGBT
activists from advocacy group “Vykhod” (Coming Out) have already
appealed to local police officers to remove the sign. The
group’s lawyers are currently considering whether to press
charges of “inciting hatred” against the shop, the activists
wrote on Facebook.’

https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2017/05/german-sterligov-bans- gays-russia-store-chain-homosexuals/
 

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