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In reply to the discussion: While You’re Bashing Russia for its Homophobic Laws, Remember… [View all]riqster
(13,986 posts)31. To the extent that you "extrapolated", I feel comfortable in my response to you.
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The worst of "our" assholes can't jail and fine people for the "crime" of being gay.
MADem
Aug 2013
#3
Yep....no saying "My nephew married his partner" in the wrong crowd over there! nt
MADem
Aug 2013
#7
They're gonna be rich, too, seeing how Louisiana denied 'em their constitutional rights. nt
MADem
Aug 2013
#14
Yep, it will take years and years in America for LGBT to achieve 100% equality. America
RKP5637
Aug 2013
#34
What is clear to me is that you are approaching this from a theoretical point of view
riqster
Aug 2013
#62
I didn't "argue against that point" -- see post 11 (which I wrote WAY before your post 65)
MADem
Aug 2013
#72
Of course we're not saints from back in the day...but the big difference between us and them is that
MADem
Aug 2013
#11
Trying to remember when us Canucks last invaded a defenseless country . . .
ConcernedCanuk
Aug 2013
#70
Oh, let's see....Iraq? Afghanistan? Canada even played the "Nudge, Wink" in Vietnam
MADem
Aug 2013
#71
In KS, for one example, it is still a criminal act to be gay. They kept it on the books. As you
RKP5637
Aug 2013
#35
There are laws on the books in Georgia that say you have to eat fried chicken with your hand.
MADem
Aug 2013
#58
Yes, fortunately they are superseded! I wonder what is going to happen now DOMA was
RKP5637
Aug 2013
#61
What YOU should remember is that the corner has been turned here, in the right direction.
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#10
Yes, but degree of suckage and trajectory matter. Compare where we are now to where we were
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#66
By the OP's logic, the US was wrong to boycott apartheid South Africa because some
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#13
No, your use of the word 'bashing' to characterize criticism of these Russian laws
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#28
To the extent that you "extrapolated", I feel comfortable in my response to you.
riqster
Aug 2013
#31
By the way, you did not answer my question and you took a personal jab at me
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#32
I don't think that illustrating the degrees of difference between the two nations, in this context a
LanternWaste
Aug 2013
#40
Calling out the deltas is not the same as acting like we are done with the fight here. nt
riqster
Aug 2013
#41
Almost all countries in Africa and the Middle East have harsher anti-gay laws than Russia.
former9thward
Aug 2013
#68