Ive been noticing that it doesn ' t happen sometimes still . Two nights ago I had to manually do it in flex queue . <| sep |> Hmm . Most of Russia ' s antigay stuff stems from religion , anyway . While the average Russian may not attend church frequently or pray fervently , the Orthodox Church still holds sway over public opinion , Mikhailova said . The church is taking a more and more prominent place in Russia , and Putin and his government constantly talk about spiritual values , she said . Traditional values are portrayed as what makes Russia strong . The rhetoric of sin is an important rhetoric right now for Russians , Mikhailova said . Most anti gay laws were really bad in the 1700 s , but there ' s actually a time period in the 1800 s hypothesized to be related to the French Revolution and how it set a trend on removing religiosity from legislature . However by the 1900 s as governments changed these religious values made their way back in to the legislation with full force , and have continued to be there since . Despite the population generally not claiming to be strongly religious , the government still looks to Orthodox tradition for moral values , and it heavily shapes things . Though , while I can say fairly strongly that the historic route and origin of the antihomosexuality in Russia is definitively religion based , I will say that in more modern times it ' s mostly due to forced associations between homosexuality , rape , and pedophilia .