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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6260749" data-attributes="member: 3400">I'm not so sure of that. Take a look at the gay rights issue. Gay marriage rights are polling well and state bans are falling - but the deck is still stacked against same sex marriages in more than half the states and in a lot of countries across the globe the issue is getting worse for homosexuals (just check current moves in some African states and, of course, Russia). By putting a same sex couple in the Coke ad, by putting the rainbow on the Google Doodle, these corporations may be acting when the issue is reaching a major decisive point when just a few years ago everything was tacking the opposite direction and bans were nearly unstoppable.And that's without even getting into the issues the US still has with racism and the recent setbacks that have been thrown at minority voting participation. It may be 50 years too late for Coke to be at the vanguard, but they're involved against racism right when a series of setbacks are being pushed pretty hard. So I'll give them some credit for taking a stand and portraying mixed race marriage and kids as a perfectly normal part of the American experience.</blockquote>