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You can't demand people in other places to McDonaldize their conference to the latest intellectual fashion of the costal United States.

Demanding others to comply to your cultural standards (and denying cooperation otherwise), you actually strip yourself of the opportunity to spread them (cultural standards).

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Genuine question - why not? If (for the sake of argument) the money is raised in the coastal United States, why are they not entitled to disburse it conditional on respecting LGBTQ rights?

My point is that sure, one can set this condition too, and be very strict about it. But this way they just close the ways to spread their culture.

If Protestant churches were behaving this way, they'd still have stayed in North Europe exclusively, not send missionaries anywhere, and achieved nothing.

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