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Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by gverri on Monday March 31, 2014 @10:44PM (#7505847)
Nobody?! Uganda? Russia? India?

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/31/how-evangelicals-wo...

"Evangelicals took to Twitter and Facebook to threaten to stop sending money to their sponsored children unless World Vision reversed course."

All this over a word?! An etymology war... #not.

Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by victorhooi on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:10PM (#7512934)
Err, couple of corrections.

On a geographical front - the US is a different country to Uganda/Russia/India.

I was speaking on the topic at hand - which is about Brandon Eichs, a US citizen, supporting a US piece of legislation, and about Mozilla, a US organisation who he works for.

Perhaps it's slightly US-centric - but then this is a US-based site. If you want articles about other countries, you're free to submit them.

And secondly, on the religious front - Africa as a whole is not particularly homosexual friendly. I suspect part of this is cultural - they're just very conservative in how they view relationships/marriage.

This isn't about religion, but simply about their society as a whole.

For example, arranged marriages are still common, and they frown very strongly on things like adultery.

So to somehow try to link it to a Californian legislation about legalistic definitions of marriages versus civil unions is a big disingenuous.

Russia and India likewise are two countries that are quite conservative in their values.

It's the same in China -they're most definitely not a Christian society by any stretch (Christianity is basically a punishable offence), but they also don't like LBGT relationships.

The funny thing is - you don't see the same level of noise about this issue in Muslim countries.

I've always wondered why that is.

Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by marshray on Monday March 31, 2014 @11:10PM (#7505938)
YEAH! Mozilla and Uganda ... I get the two confused all the time!!!