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

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.svg 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.