Gay marriage opponents and the USSR

Maggie Gallagher, Chair of the anti-gay marriage group the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) called the overturning of Prop 8 by activist leftist judge (who in fact was a Reagan appointee recommended by Ed Meese) a "Soviet" style takeover. Which makes some sense as a metaphor but also raises a funny little historical issue. See, I know the specter of communism is supposed to be an indictment of liberalism, but if one looks at the actual policies of the U.S.S.R., they were actually much more in line with right-wingers on homosexuality. Starting in the Stalinist era, homosexuality was in fact illegal under Article 121 of the Soviet criminal code which made sexual relations among men punishable by a five year prison term. Communist propaganda not only in the USSR, but throughout Eastern Europe and also in Cuba (though its policies have dramatically shifted in more recent decades) depicted homosexuality as one more negative symptom of capitalism, painting it as a form of "bourgeois decadence." While all of this is certainly much more harsh than what NOM would like to see, perhaps in this area, Ms. Gallagher should rethink what a "Soviet-style" takeover would really mean.