Re:Google Announces Global Campaign To Legalize Gay Marriage
by Tichy on Sunday July 08, 2012 @06:14AM
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Who says that they won't run a campaign for that? That line of reasoning seems really strange to me. How do you ever manage to do anything, if all the time you think "but why not do x instead"? You have to start with something.
Were they to run a campaign against antisemitism, you would be the first to cry out "why don't they run a campaign for gay marriage instead".
Re:Google Announces Global Campaign To Legalize Gay Marriage
by einhverfr on Sunday July 08, 2012 @08:13AM
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Sure, why not. I am sure they could campaign for acceptance for eating cheeseburgers among the Jews too while they are at it. But that wasn't the point I was replying to.
Also in Indonesia, allowing same-sex marriage by law but keeping all the other marriage laws would change... exactly nothing. All marriages in Indonesia are required to be officiated by clergy of approved religions, and the approved religions are, iirc, fixed in the Constitution.
Also it may be practically illegal to be Jewish in Saudi Arabia (I don't know about Sabbateans, which is a sort of weird crypto-Jewish Islamic hybrid that resulted after some forced conversions).