Russian President Putin on This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Via Mediaite:

In the second segment of George Stephanopoulos’ interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the ABC host pressed Putin on the controversy over Russia’s heightened anti-LGBT laws, which have led to calls for a boycott of the Sochi Olympics.

Putin argued that the laws were not repressive, and that the United States had no room in which to criticize on gay rights, given its own statutes.  Said Putin:

"Acts of protest and acts of propaganda are somewhat different things. They are close, but if we were to look at them from the legal perspective, then protesting a law does not amount to propaganda of sexuality or sexual abuse of children. That's one.

"Two is that I'd like to ask our colleagues, my colleagues and friends, that as they try to criticize us, they would do well to set their own house in order first. I did say, after all, and this is public knowledge, that in some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.

Stephanopolous pointed out that "the Supreme Court has struck those laws down."

Watch the interview above from ABC News.