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Nobody?! Uganda? Russia? India? http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/31/how-evangelicals-won-a-culture-war-and-lost-a-generation/ http://religion.blogs.cnn.co

by gverri 13y ago

Nobody?! Uganda? Russia? India? http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/31/how-evangelicals-won-a-culture-war-and-lost-a-generation/ 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.

marshray 13y ago
YEAH! Mozilla and Uganda ... I get the two confused all the time!!!
victorhooi 13y ago
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.

by gverri 13y ago

marshray 13y ago

YEAH! Mozilla and Uganda ... I get the two confused all the time!!!

victorhooi 13y ago

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.