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The first president by popular election in Russia’s history, Yeltsin represented the beginnings of a bright, democratic future for Russia.

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One man behind the writing of this letter is Michael Wear, who served in the White House faith-based initiative during Obama’s first term and directed faith outreach for Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. A recent article in the Boston Globe explained that the letter is an attempt at finding a middle ground and protecting religious organizations from being automatically cut from federal funding:

He said its intent is to find a way to protect LGBT rights but also assures religious organizations that hire “according to their religious identity” that they will not be automatically disqualified from competing for federal contracts.

The letter’s request, attempting to justify itself by claiming it benefited “the faith communities whose religious identity and beliefs motivate them to serve those in need” has been criticized by many.

Among the many religious figures attaching themselves to the letter is D. Michael Lindsay, the president of a small Christian college north of Boston, Gordon College. His involvement in the letter in particular was criticized. A recent Boston Globe article quoted one critic – Paul Miller, 29, “a co-founder of LGBTQ organization OneGordon who graduated from Gordon in 2008 and worked for the school for three years before leaving because he could not come out as gay while there” – who said:

[D. Michael] Lindsay has made Gordon a fortress of faith rather than a place where the doors are open to people who want to be part of a conversation about what it means to be a Christian. He thinks it’s important that it’s encoded into law that institutions be able to discriminate.

Anti LGBT verbage is the norm of so-called equality and justice-based modern church movements such as the Vineyard USA

What’s wrong with sex in a committed homosexual relationship is that it fails to point to how sex-in-marriage is supposed to be as a pointer to God’s created order and design (of fulfillment in our counterpart, our complementary other, not a person of our own gender).

Here, Yeltsin promises democracy through his explanation of what being a president truly means – no “god”, no “monarch”. Later on in his presidency, he fought the mostly Communist parliament to create a new Russian constitution that clearly defined the spheres of power within the Russian government, a move that would widen his own role as president and give him more power.

While challenging the communist parliament was a necessary step towards a real strike at democracy, Yeltsin made later moves in his presidency that contradicted his ideals – for example, temporarily banning all political opposition.

This could also be considered a slight directed at Yeltsin’s predecessor, Gorbachev. While both men are noted for the changes they brought to Russia, they had come to despise the other.

Yeltsin had previously attacked Gorbachev on account of the ‘luxuries’ he enjoyed as Soviet leader, and there was fuel for the fire in a country where high-ranking Party members could shop in exclusive stores.