By John Mack Freeman
In this week’s bizarre news, Russia has removed a memorial to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs because his successor Tim Cook came out this week. This is so ridiculous that I can’t even review the news, so here it is from Out.com:
Erected by a Russian group of companies called ZEFS, the over 6-foot-high, iPhone-shaped monument was built outside a St. Petersburg technical college in January 2013. It was dismantled on Friday by the very group that had it put up in the first place.
ZEFS released a statement today claiming that they needed to abide by Russia’s much reviled “gay propaganda” law. “In Russia, gay propaganda and other sexual perversions among minors are prohibited by law,” said ZEFS. They noted that the memorial had been erected “in an area of direct access for young students and scholars.” ZEFS had the memorial, which featured a touch screen that displayed information about Jobs and Apple, dismantled only a day after Cook came out.
“After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was taken down to abide to the Russian federal law protecting children from information promoting denial of traditional family values,” reads ZEFS statement.