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Re:Thinking About Mozilla by sentenza on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:13PM (#7509375)
I am also having problems with placing this whole thing in my worldview frame-of-reference. As a matter of fact, I'm a gay-friendly man from Germany with friends and family who are gay.

Thus I could, in the future, theoretically become a Mozilla Corporation CEO.

But Mozilla has offices in many South-American countries as well as in Ireland and Poland. Those are _very_ Catholic countries, where homophopia is quite widespread, sometimes even the norm.

So should Mozilla also do something about that? Or is it sufficient that the lower-level homophobes within its structure will not pass the Gesinnungstest and thus cannot rise beyond a certain level?

Also, I hold extreme pro-gun-control views. Would that influence my (theoretical) chances of becoming Mozilla CEO in the future?

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Re:Thinking About Mozilla by nknighthb on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:46PM (#7509635)
Funny you should mention Ireland, where a marriage equality referendum is expected to pass next year[0][1], and South America, population ~385.7 million, where Brazil[2], Argentina[3], and Uruguay[4], constituting ~246 million (or ~64% of South America), have marriage equality.

And hey, as long as we're talking Catholic... Belgium was the second country in the world to gain equality, and Spain and Portugal both have it, too. Mexico is almost there in practice -- same-sex marriages are recognized nationwide, though they can currently only be performed in certain jurisdictions.

[0] http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1105/484662-same-sex-marriage/

[1] http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/poll-73-of-public-back-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Brazil

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Argentina

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Uruguay

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Re:Thinking About Mozilla by sentenza on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @03:06PM (#7510878)
Wow this is surprising, I honestly didn't know that. My first hand knowledge is limited to Spain, which is very relaxed about these things and to Poland, where the situation is rather bad. My assumption was that in countries where the catholic church has some sway, homophobia would be rampant (wrongfully extrapolating from Poland and the stance of the Vatican).

Should have checked Wikipedia. Sigh.

It seems that, given this map [1], the acceptance of homosexuality is more correlated with wealth and general openness of society.

Ireland surprises me, though. Abortion is still illegal there for mainly religious reasons, right? So let's hope they fix that too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_homosexuality_laws.s...

PS: While I was obviously quite off regarding my comment about Catholicism, the general problem still exists: Mozilla has offices in countries where the persecution of homosexuality is common.

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