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Originally Posted by BluPhire
Does it indirectly affect us?
Many things have happened in this world that hasn't caused most people to blink.
Expound.
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That's like saying "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?"
People get ideas from a number of sources including international trends. The very fact that some people know what the global trends are regarding homosexuality and homosexual unions can shape the perception of norms and values in this society. That can change the laws in this society if the dominant majority deems it nonthreatening to remove the stigma of homosexual union. It is not an overnight process but there are a lot of things that no longer make people blink in America that used to make people cry and lynch. Those domestic changes were not isolated from global dynamics. That is even moreso the case now in this global economy and increasingly "global society."