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From children to families to the elderly, a couple of hundred demonstrators, speaking both English and Russian, gathered in Lynnwood on Saturday, carrying signs saying “Protect Children” and “Reject R-71.” “It’s important — a big issue,” said Aleksey Borisov, 24, a construction worker who drove all the way from Eastern Washington with several other members of Light of the Gospel, a Slavic Baptist church in Spokane, to participate. The rally was a visible demonstration of the increasingly active role that members of Russian-speaking conservative evangelical churches are playing in marriage and gay-rights issues, including the battle over Referendum 71. “They’ve been very helpful,” said Larry Stickney, one of the leaders in the campaign to reject R-71. “They’re helping us get a lot of literature out — door-to-door or at shopping malls, churches. They’re fearless.” R-71, on the Nov. 3 ballot, asks voters whether to approve or reject a recent state law granting marriagelike benefits to sam
