Postscript: Maybe you have heard this, but many believe that anti-gay sentiment of the likes we see over there today was whipped up through steady incursions of American Evangelicals into Russia. Various charities and Christian clubs like CoMission traveled there starting in the late '90s, all of them carrying the message of "traditional values under threat." The irony, of course, is how sky-high the abortion rate is over there . . . looks like they dropped the ball on that one.