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Originally Posted by strombad
You're shrugging off any real answer or any possibility of having social responsibility. Based on your logic (and I'm sure people are going to enjoy this being brought up again) the holocaust was fine, right? I mean, it fits the bill for you. It's a different culture, it's their own laws, so why should we pass judgement on what is right or wrong? Please, grow up and have a backbone. Letting other cultures function the way they want is PART of what NA is all about, especially here in Canada. But what ISN'T acceptable is the abuse of human rights, the jailing of people who are born a certain way, or the killing of people (full stop, your culture doesn't get to take life).
Quit playing the "oh well gee golly it's not our place card" and realise that attitude is supporting these human rights abuses. You bring this up as a reason for it being wrong for us to wear a patch supporting LGBT rights, but that is hypocritical, as we are representing part of our culture, something which you say isn't anyone's place to pass judgement on.
The only hypocrite here is you, sorry dude.
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I never said anything was wrong about wearing a patch. I think it is perfectly fine for individuals to express their personal beliefs. I think it is wrong for an organization to force that upon people though. My best friend is a lesbian, a Hindi lesbian at that. I hear everything she goes through with her family, but guess what? While it hurts her, she understands that the culture is against it and she knows changes cannot be forced. They need to come at their own pace.
Just because I am not judging a society because they aren't as tolerant as we claim to be, does not make me a hypocrite.