 "Russian politician wants Apple CEO Tim Cook banned from country for being gay")
Hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly addressed his sexuality for the first time, a St Petersburg politician and prominent anti-LGBT lawmaker wants Cook to be banned from Russia. [caption id=“attachment_1781995” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  AFP[/caption] “What could he bring us? The Ebola virus, AIDS, gonorrhea? They all have unseemly ties over there,” St. Petersburg city council member Vitaly Milonov told the FlashNord website on Thursday. “Ban him for life.” Milonov went one step further to suggest that Tim Cook’s coming-out article was aimed at increasing iPhone sales. He went on to claim that gay people are “all promiscuous” and urged the country to “ban him forever”. Milonov is the same politician behind St. Petersburg’s anti-gay laws that were adopted by the Russian Duma. As a country Russia maintains homosexuality itself is not illegal, but so much as speaking about it openly in front of children is strictly forbidden.
Hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly addressed his sexuality for the first time, a St Petersburg politician and prominent anti-LGBT lawmaker wants Cook to be banned from Russia.
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