US President Barack Obama must have known that his support of gay marriage would bring him trouble. But of all possible repercussions, a demand to roll back Alaska’s 1867 sale to the United States was one he was unlikely to have seen coming.
And yet that was the very claim that an ultraconservative religious group made in a Moscow arbitrage court, citing the need to protect fellow Christians from sin.
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The Pchyolki also cited technical violations of the terms of the 1867 deal that saw Russia sell Alaska to the US government for $7.2 million, or 2 cents per acre. Payment was made by check and not golden coin as specified in the contract, the group said.
As conservatives, Sarah Palin and the rest at CPAC would no doubt back this initiative by their fellow conservatives.
The Pchyolki are a relatively obscure group created in 2008 to protect orphans’ rights in Russia, which it did by campaigning against sexual education in schools, among other things.
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The Russian Orthodox Church estimated its flock in Alaska at about 50,000 of the state’s total population of 730,000, the BBC said in 2010, adding that the faith was the main legacy of Russia’s 68-year-long rule over the northern territory.
They're not at all concerned about saving any good Christians from the high rates of alcoholism or rape or sexual abuse, but let a couple of homosexuals try to find peace and happiness, and they're ready to reclaim Alaska. Typical misplaced logic of the nut job extremist. crowd
