I've got no patience for fascists regardless of how much they might think their cause of noble. What happened to Eich is a violation of basic human rights regardless of what country it happened in. If you are such a poofter supporter then maybe you should stop using all javascript enabled websites. Good luck on being productive.

In what cultures did you not have to get a marriage license? A license is required to legally marry and it used to require a blood test as well as a records search to determine that you were not marrying a blood relative or attempting to commit polygamy.

Gays have been free to marry. There was never anything stopping a gay man from marrying a woman regardless if she was straight or a lesbian.

Marriage was defined by gender, not sexual preference. Enlighten me. Where was the deprival of basic human rights even ignoring that marriage never was a basic human right. You always had to obtain a license or permission from someone in authority and possibly obtain permission from the bride's family. There were also some very specific conditions for who you could marry.

Do you also have a different definition of english words as well? I quote the first Amendment:

The first half states that Congress shall pass no law to establish a state religion. The second part prohibits congress from passing any laws prohibiting the free exercise of religious freedom. What part of that do you have difficulty understanding? Are the words too big for someone who ironically calls religious people cretins? Do you need to go back to school and possibly enrol in some Sylvan tutoring?

Basic human rights do not require a license. Marriage requires a license and has certain terms and conditions. For example, polygamy is illegal. Gay people are not denied basic human rights. Marriage is not a basic human right.

So your definition of tolerance differs from this?

I hate to break it to you but US state laws have no power outside a state let alone in other countries. Some countries have legal consent age as low as 15 and some even lower. I also hate to break it to you but chances are that your great, great, great,grandmother might have married at 13.

BULLSHIT. Gay people are humans correct? So consequently, they have human rights. So why do they need gay rights? What they do in the privacy of their own home is their own business. It only becomes everyone's business when we have to ascertain whether someone is gay or not and that is a requirement for "gay" rights.

We hate your tactics and your meddling in society and your attempts to redefine what the social norms are. We are not anti-gay. We are anti-gay activists. Live your life without trying to alter the social norms and nobody will bother you. If you try to "pervert" (change) what is considered normal then you will meet resistance.

The reality is that you people have invented this notion that you are hated in your own mind and that people hate you because you are gay. No, we hate you if you act like an asshole and try to lord over the rest of us. We hate you for what you are trying to do to the rest of us and our society. I am not responsible for your happiness. You are the only person who can decide if you are happy or not.

I never asked to be harassed and bullied when I was growing up in high school. Do you support bullying too? My bully was a gay kid. He bullied/harassed me to make himself feel better. He even tried to convince classmates that I was gay but he could not convince me or my girlfriends of that lie. I forgave that bully a long time ago but I don't know if he ever forgave himself. I would not be surprised if you were to try to blame the victim (me) and suggest that it was somehow my fault.

I think it is high time for society to stand up to bullies like you. We cannot make you happy. You have to choose to be happy and no amount of changes to laws will make you happy. Happiness is a choice.

Tolerance? Do you mean like all of those gay bullies yelling obscenities and other foul language? I see no tolerance from your side. I see only oppression. Do you consider it tolerance to threaten to close down a plant in Arizona? Tolerance requires at least two opposing viewpoints. You cannot have tolerance in a monoculture.

The majority of bullying in schools are perpetrated by gay kids.

You don't seek tolerance, what you want is a monoculture.

I think he is confusing him with Tim Cook who has used his position to threaten both California and, most recently, the governor of Arizona by suggesting that Apple would cancel their Sapphire factory plans in that state. That should be illegal since Apple is a publicly traded company and Tim Cook does not have the authority to represent the shareholders on a social issue. What he did was an abuse of his position.

So are you saying that it was wrong for Tim Cook, as the CEO of Apple to use his position to influence politicians to oppose Prop 8? Are you saying that it was wrong for Tim Cook to threaten the Arizona Governor over anti-gay legislation there? Or are you saying that you are a hypocrite and it is only wrong if someone is against gay rights? See: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/...

If you are of that double minded position, then you are a hypocrite sir. Either both are wrong or neither are wrong. I happen to think a CEO can use their "own" money from their compensation to fund any cause they wish but a publicly traded company's money belongs to the shareholders and not the CEO so he should never threaten politicians over a social issue using the company as leverage. Tim Cook should be fired IMO.

Do you you even have a clue why separation of church and state exists? It was not created that atheists could attack religion. It was created to protect the "CHURCH" from the "STATE" and to prevent a state church. Full stop. Anything else is a fiction created by activist atheists trying to ironically use it to limit religious freedom when the intention of the amendment was to "PROTECT" religious freedom and prevent "LIMITS" being imposed on that freedom by the "STATE".

More than half of the voters? When was there ever a vote on it? Do you mean polling numbers? How are they supposed to reach people in the middle of the day if they are at work?

Are you saying that it is not dehumanizing to call someone a homophobe simply because they don't agree with gay rights activists? Did it ever occur to you that maybe they don't hate gay people and they simply are just standing up for their definition of normality? I don't see anyone, other than the westboro baptists suggesting throwing any stones. I think you will find that silence does not mean acceptance but rather likely means tolerance. You cannot be tolerant of something if you support it. You tolerate what you might not agree with. You might find that the majority would leave the final judgement up to God.

You sound like that gay bully I encountered in grade school. Grow up and stop expecting other people validate you. You can be as gay as you want but just to expect everyone to accept your way of life. You are the intolerant one. You have no tolerance for those who believe differently than you.

One of my colleagues in the past had a degree in divinity, and the one who hired my had a psychological degree. You appear to assume that a background in physics or mathematics would give a distinct advantage over others in programming in all fields. While I'm sure those skills are a basic necessity in developing new physics engines and possibly a new sorting, compression or encryption algorithm, many fields do not require a developer to "reinvent" the wheel and they can simply use existing proven technologies. This is often called building on the "shoulders of giants".

I think that the fact that I am multilingual and have a firm grasp of "logic" is far more useful than any mathematics that I might have learned in school. I view programming as more of an "art" than a science. It is a form of expression and the programming languages are analogous to human languages used in writing stories and prose. One could say that methods of a class are very much like prose on a conceptual level and the class is analogous to a chapter in a book.

I think you are confused. Since I assume that you are a native english speaker and a monolingual one at that, I can understand how you have trouble with this concept. While most programming languages might have "keywords" written in english, they have a distinct syntax that is not exactly the same as natural english syntax which is why it is like thinking/reading in a different language than you are used to.