The title is a bit weird, since I think this will be more of an issue for people who are in a serious/long-term relationship but aren't married.
More than half people I know in Europe are. A lot of Americans are, too.
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#172I will try to flag all companies in my mind that are advertising on this event and then continue to avoid them if possible.
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Actually, it is the same in Norway. Though less enforced and lighter punishment.
Not really. Norway has pubs and restaurants though, and I imagine has a higher threshold for “being drunk” than Qatar edit: huh I mixed up my middle-east countries I think, I didn't realise you could normally go out for a beer. I still think that suggesting the two places are equivalent is a little bit of a stretch though.
You can drink in rooms, bars and restaurants in hotels, home bars in Qatar. Police do check for drunk driving. Haven't seen too many drunk people, but I assume if you are not causing others to complain, you would be fine.
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Why does Qatar have to force their values on people who are visiting for an international event? Why should any country be allowed to regulate what I do in the privacy of my bedroom between consenting adults? You being downvoted has nothing to do with intolerance towards other cultures and religions, just Qatar being an example of a country forcing values on others in the privacy of their bedrooms.
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> why we should have whole Pride month about people's bedroom activities?
You make clear your prejudices with this "question". Pride isn't about "bedroom activities", rather it's about making it clear that we won't tolerate being told that we're not allowed to be who we are, that we're abnormal, or that we have to hide in the shadows because we make some people uncomfortable.
Cultures that try to suppress others have to be confronted and fought against - whether that's a white nationalist culture, Christian conservative culture, Muslim culture, etc.
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Yeah, but it is now illegal in at least one state to get your child medical care if they are trans… I’m not trying to do what about type stuff, just appalled at the myriad of conditions I see around the world.
By that measure the US seems way better than Qatar, no? Or are you arguing the US isn’t perfect, in that case no country is.
I’m sort of just appalled watching the madness unfold. Ennui is probably a good word for it. Ennui for a past moral high ground (that is likely a lot smaller than we think given how much got ignored)
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>People frown on public defecation. Why is that? I would have thought that was obvious. It's because it smells, spreads disease and is seen as a general disregard for others that have to be near what's left behind.
Now apply this to spiritual pollution.
If watching 2 people being affectionate towards one another is spiritual pollution then maybe your spiritualism sucks ass ?
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> USA isn’t perfect, but being gay isn’t punishable by jail time here. Well, not since 2003, at least. For now.
Were they sending gay people to jail in the USA pre 2003?
Yes. And sometimes to the gallows.
In fact, there were offenders still being convicted for this in 2018 [1]
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/02/1...
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#178The title downplays this a lot. The first sentence in the article reads "Any extramarital sexual encounter (...) could result in a seven-year jail sentence." That usually means any sexual relation outside of marriage is forbidden, even between life partners.
Temporary marriage is probably the way people in Qatar get around that. It's probably an alien concept for a lot of Westerners who wouldn't know or would balk at the idea.
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#179I'm not sure about Qatar, but many Islamic countries got around such regulations by introducing or tolerating "one night marriages". They just marry before having sex, and divorce afterwards.
Islam doesn't forbid men to have more than one wife simultaneously, so it covers even already married customers.
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#180"public displays of affection are frowned upon regardless of sexual orientation" That, I agree with.
My partner and I are in a heterosexual relationship. We often hold hands in public, sometimes we kiss, sometimes one or the other or both have arms around the others’ waist. Our ordinary behaviour could get us in trouble there? Fine, I wasn’t planning on going anyway. But why on earth would this disturb anybody? It’s not like people make out in public.
What's so bad about making out in public?