Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox
by victorhooi on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:10PM
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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.
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.