Agreed, but that particular problem is a lot harder to address by pressuring the government. It would be like if I wrote a letter to, say, the Ohio state government, and told them that I heard that some of the people in their state hate gay people, so I won’t be doing business there. Except for enacting and vigorously pursuing hate crime laws, there’s not much Ohio as a state can do to stop individuals from hating other individuals, and unlike Russia, the U.S. government isn’t validating the beliefs of all those gay-hatin’ Bubbas by passing laws that forbid the open discussion of LGBT issues.
To be fair, if you argued that the U.S. government is implicitly allow some degree of the same by forbidding state restrictions on gay marriage, I might be inclined to agree.
