Can the Christian Right Quit Putin?

Can the Christian Right Quit Putin?
(Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Just a few years ago, shortly after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, the American evangelist Franklin Graham wrote admiringly, in his father's magazine, of Putin's efforts to protect children from the "propaganda of homosexuality." The 2014 Sochi Olympics had just ended, and the United States had included gay athletes like Billie Jean King in its official delegation to the games -- in part, a rebuke to a law passed in Russia the year before that made it illegal to equate same-sex relationships with heterosexual ones.

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