They have to have some social issues to force the populace to focus on whenever they’re doing something blatantly corrupt elsewhere.

Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.

Oh I’m sorry, did stoking the fires of misinformation and creating a constant state of fear in your base result in a dangerous environment? Who could have seen that coming?

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I’m not sure it’s that simple in this particular case…

The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

That specific wording makes me think these particular shareholders are actually on the right side and taking advantage of the fact UHC is a piece of shit company to both profit and make a point.

So you’re saying they care about their recognized partnership being specifically referred to as “marriage” over everything else about the actual recognition and governmental benefits that governmental recognition gives them?

I think of marriage as a secular tradition.

I think most of us do, but enough of these fuckers don’t. They think of it as a religious thing deep in their core, and they have strong opinions based around that. My point is that it doesn’t really matter what it’s called, and since that seems to be one of the big hangups with many of the religious fuckers, “marriage” specifically being religious, just call it something else. What something is called is not the hill to die on with stupid people, and there’s enough of them that they can’t be ignored, so we work with what we have. Call it something else, get that new term recognized as an equal reference to marriage for benefits, and let’s finally fucking move on. Arguing with the religious about wording is a losing battle, many of them still think the Earth is like 5,000 years old and dinosaurs are fake. We’re losing a battle with idiots because we’re insisting on a specific terminology that they have a problem with.

Remove the state and federal incentives for marriage. The religious fucks care because they can’t comprehend marriage being a non-religious thing. But because there are real world advantages for being married, it creates a religious barrier that should be against the Constitution.

Most LGBTQ folks I know and have talked to don’t give a fuck what their acknowledged relationship is called as long as it’s recognized by the government for the incentives. If you remove all government incentives for married couples versus individuals, then the actual issue of citizens being denied rights based on religion goes away.