Quote for the Day II

"These gays wanted to lay flowers at the grave of the unknown warrior. This is a provocation. It is desecration of a sacred place. These gays go there, and openly go up to the monument. It is a contamination. People burst through and of course they beat them up," – the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, whose cops prevented a peaceful gay pride march in Moscow last weekend. My own blog-coverage of the melee as it unfurled last Saturday can be found here. Meanwhile, in Romania