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As Daniel Patrick Moynihan once put it, you are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. Spend a few minutes reading about polling methodologies and playing around with a sample size calculator. California's number of registered voters was around 18.25 million in 2012. Put in 19 million if you're feeling generous to your own opinions.

Also, all 50 states allow minors to wed with parental consent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_marriage_in_United_State...

    Thus the campaign for "marriage equality" has
    a narrow definition of equality and should be
    renamed the campaign for "same-sex marriage".
Sure, ok, whatever.


So you can get married without having to ask for anyone's permission.

Yet individuals who are 16 or 17 years old, need parental consent, before getting married.

How is this "equal"?


They're minors. There is no equality. No one is debating that minors should be extended the full set of rights accorded to legal adults. The only time in the last 50 years this came up for debate was when 18-20 year olds were being sent off to die in a conflict that they couldn't vote against.




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