Google’s New Goal: Gay Marriage Legal World Wide
via Google Wants to Legalize Same Sex Marriage Worldwide – National – The Atlantic Wire.
Bravo, Google. The tech giant announced a new campaign to legalize same sex marriage across the world at an LGBT conference on Saturday. Pointed out to us by Think Progress, Dot429 reports Google’s Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe announced the “Legalize Love” campaign at an LGBT Workplace Summit in London on Saturday. The initiative starts in Singapore and Poland, but will eventually expand to every country that has a Google office. The idea is to “focus on places with homophobic cultures, where anti-gay laws exist,” before expanding into more liberal countries.
Palmer-Edgecumbe explained why Singapore is a good place for the company to start their campaign. ”Singapore wants to be a global financial center and world leader and we can push them on the fact that being a global center and a world leader means you have to treat all people the same, irrespective of their sexual orientation,” he said.
In some instances, he said Google hasn’t been able to employ the best person for the job because of some countries anti-gay culture. ”We have had a number of instances where we have been trying to hire people into countries where there are these issues and have been unable to put the best person into a job in that country,” he explained.
I wonder if I actually googled where in the world the most homophobic cultures and anti-gay laws existed what it would say. First result is Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory.
Singapore: “Male illegal (Penalty: up to 2 years prison sentence; no plan to repeal 377A and not enforced since 1999)”
Male homosexuality as punishable with jail time is not acceptable but at least it hasn’t been enforced in a decade. So consider that some measure of progress.
Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia and much of the rest of the Muslim world:
Illegal (Penalty: death or prison/fines/whipping)
Google’s famous mantra is “Don’t be evil.”
Question: is it evil to focus people’s attention and money on fighting the minor evil of Singapore’s unenforced sodomy law while ignoring the far more significant evils of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing executions of gays, sorcerers, “dishonored” women, and Muslim apostates?
And where does Google MENA (Middle East and North Africa) fit in with this campaign?
Recommended reading: Mitchell Bard’s The Arab Lobby.
Do-gooder Westerners trying to impose their values on developing countries? Hmmm, I always thought leftists were opposed to “cultural imperialism.” Silly me, it seems that certain kinds of imperialism are more acceptable than others……
Liberals have institutionalized hypocrisy.
….if they even try it. Saying you’re going to do it in order to score liberal western civilization brownie points mong your peers, and then backing off any real action with the hard line nations when push comes to financial shove is the most likely outcome, based on Google’s on-again, off-again actions on standing up to and then giving into Chinese censorship efforts.
They are nothing but damnable leftists, the lot of them.
Hmmm. Time to give Bing another try.
I have used Bing for quite some time and recently I’ve discovered ixquick.
They’re starting in Singapore for the same reason we started our fight against Islamists in Iraq. You never attack an enemy where he is strong. You always aim first for somewhere you can make progress.
In the bad old days of the “White man’s burden” we Europeans and Americans judged other cultures and imposed our supposedly superior, enlightened ways on them. It’s good that (enlightened by multiculturalism and secularism and other -isms) we no longer do that sort of thing.
I will just say that I respectfully disagree with your definition of evil.
I’m with you.
And am I to assume that this is the ONLY thing they want to “enlighten” the “benighted” world about? Pinky swear? They’ll never, never, never, NEVER try to impose another belief on the world?
Someone needs to warn the globe that these lunatics ALWAYS come back for more. Someone needs to warn the globe that it’s not “gay”; it’s LGBTQ with many other letters to be added as they incrementally soften up the populace to their twisted concepts.
If we’re demanding something be legal worldwide when it isn’t even legal here, then we seem to be moving awfully fast! Not only that but we’re racing forward with all this before anyone’s even bothered to answer one important question: If homosexuality used to be a mental disorder and isn’t any longer, what science was used to make that determination?
If we were right the first time – it’s a disorder – then we’re pushing a disorder globally. Not a good idea.
And I agree with all the other posters who are pointing out that this is imperialism. But it’s left-wing imperialism, so I guess that’s OK with the left, huh?
Great Britain does not have same sex marriage. It must be a horribly homophobic place.