On May 27, 2015, Russian celebrity journalist and film director Arkady Mamontov stood in a Moscow studio of the state-owned TV channel Rossiya 1 (Russia One) to discuss his latest documentary with a group of experts and an audience of about 70 people. Along with tens of millions of Russians who regularly tune into one of the channel’s most popular programs, they had just watched the premiere of Mamontov’s 50-minute film “Sodom,” which equates homosexuality with pedophilia and claims that both were planned by the Western political establishment.

It was difficult to imagine that Mamontov could top the mind-boggling claims made in his film, and yet when he was asked to speak, he did. “Ninety percent of people in Washington are sodomites,” he announced, his last words swallowed by applause.

A lively discussion followed. Using the word “sodomite,” instead of “gay” or “homosexual,” most of the 11 experts echoed the views of Mamontov’s state-funded film. When the hosts said, “Let’s turn towards science,” psychologist Maria Kisileva weighed in. “These people have a narcissistic disorder,” she said. According to Kisileva, the key problem facing gays wasn’t alienation, but rather, “loneliness, depression, the lack of meaning in life.”

The “documentary” censors kisses from a homosexual wedding while gives a woman dancing topless several seconds of airtime during a historical review of how homosexuality was invented by American liberals during the 1960s.

With her hair pulled back in a slick ponytail, Kisileva rattled through studies and statistics and announced that if acceptance of homosexuality carried on, then soon “incest will be normal.” Journalist and broadcaster Andrey Karaulov agreed. “Gays hate kids,” he said, “and [they] are bringing about an apocalypse.”