Hello from normally sunny California

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Italy isn't all that enlightened on the gay rights issues, there are plenty of parts of the USA that have better tract records on gay rights issues. Europe likes to think of itself as enlightened and tolerant, but the USA gets a bad rap because it is a place of extremes, with very conservative and very liberal areas. On the whole, I think the USA is a country of tolerant and good people.

From a little digging on wikipedia, a greater portion of Americans support gay marriage and gay adoption than Italians.

It's not really true, OrphanPip. Maybe some do, but we are fully aware that the US, being so much bigger and such a mix of cultures and nations and so much yonger, would be much more open-minded about those issues. We're trying hard to fight homophobia and stuff, but sometimes it's not happening and becoming more tolerant takes a couple of generations to change. Plus, that we have so many communist countries that resemble the third-world ones... :]