my main problem with the US right now is that they can have prominent politicians, leaders, and celebrities openly spout their bigotry and hatred for gay people without any meaningful backlash. if a politician in Canada were to say in the media that homosexuals are unnatural and don't deserve the same rights as other people (and there have been) they get torn down to the point of irrelevance and will not hold any position of power. now i'm not saying there aren't people in Canadian politics who don't feel that way, there are likely many in the conservative party. but the smart ones keep that crap to themselves. yet Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and other big names in the Republican party can openly spout their bigotry and be cheered on by supporters, and even the challenger for president has said he favors amending the constitution to ban gay marriage
the US is so far behind the rest of the developed world in this regard that it's sickening. and ironically enough, some of the few nations that share the conservatives hatred of anything gay are the militant Islamic ones
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