Petition Goes Live Calling For The Sacking Of Ivan Okhlobystin After Homophobic Rant

<p>A Russian actor who stars in the Russian version of Scrubs and The Snow Queen called for "faggots" to be stripped of their human rights and burnt alive.</p> <p>by Newsdesk | 18th December 2013</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4603356025.jpg" width="460" height="460" alt="Ivan Okhlobystin Photocredit: Иван Бурняшев" title="Ivan Okhlobystin Photocredit: Иван Бурняшев"/></p> <p></p><p>A Petition has gone live calling for the sacking of Russian actor Ivan Okhlobysti after he said that he would strip all LGBT people of their human rights and burn them in an oven. </p><p></p><p>‘I’d put them all alive in the oven…it’s a living danger to my children,’ Okhlobystin said, according to RIA Novosti.</p><p></p><p>Okhlobystin voices the main character in the movie The Snow Queen, due for a US DVD release on January 28, 2014. Vertical Entertainment is the US DVD distributor of the film. </p><p></p><p>In an open letter to Wizart Animation, the makers of The Snow Queen, Derek William creator of the petition said:</p> <p>'Such inflammatory rhetoric should alarm anyone with a conscience and awareness of recent history, because it is redolent of the rise of the Far Right in Nazi Germany that led to the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews perished, alongside another 6 million of other minorities, including homosexuals.</p><p></p><p>'Okhlobystin's call to massacre homosexuals by a genocide of immolation has absolutely no place in the free world, and he is not a fit and proper person to be involved with the public face of children's entertainment.</p><p></p><p>'I call upon you to dissociate yourselves and your company publicly and in no uncertain terms from this outrageous rhetoric, and to end your dealings with Mr Okhlobystin forthwith, stating this as the reason.'</p><p></p><p>You can sign the petition by <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/vertical-entertainment-wizart-animation-sack-ivan-okhlobystin">clicking here</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p>