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> Which is it? The two (not supporting gay marriage, and supporting equality) are mutually incompatible. Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533691

> Now, I don't know how important this whole thing is. To me, it looks like an awful lot of fuss over a very little thing. But let's say that it is, in fact, the worst thing ever t…

Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533691 tl;dr: if this is a matter of equality, marriage itself (as a publicly recognized institution with associat…

It seems that for half the people on HN the conversation immediately stops with "this is about civil rights, therefore we should not tolerate Eich's intolerance". But marriage itse…

Marriage is not a civil right. It is a pact between two people, rooted in long-standing tradition, to which the state associates a number of privileges. Right off the bat, if we co…