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Do you support polygamy? Should minors be allowed to marry?

I don't care either way what your answers are to the above questions, but understand that if you say no to either then you are joining the majority in imposing your belief on a minority. In the first case there can be no reasonable justification for such a belief except that you believe in "traditional marriage." Perhaps that is what Brendan Eich believes in too?

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I support removing the definition of marriage from the lawbooks entirely. I really don't see why the government should be in the business of telling people what is and is not a valid marriage.

I realize that my point got a little lost in my example. I was just trying to provide context for Dolimiter to explain why there's a distinction between Eich telling homosexuals they can't marry (from the article's perspective, this is wrong) and people telling Eich that he shouldn't act on his beliefs in this way. They are not equal-and-opposite forms or repression.

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