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Thom_Holwerda on Sun 8th Jul 2012 20:49 UTC in reply to "RE[3]:
Explanation" Member since:  I'm going to respectfully disagree
with you on that.  If you're on my side of the screen, you'd
understand. I can't leave broken threads, since readers would
not be able to make sense of it. It's not an exact science, but
alas. Leave all comments, people complain. Remove a few
comments, people complain. Use the hatchet, and people complain.
There's no right way here.  In any case, just as I would remove
"black people shouldn't be allowed to get married to white
people", I will remove "gay people are not allowed to get
married with other gay people".  I will also not avoid posting a
news item just because large parts of the world do not yet have
full legal equality for all its citizens. Can't help it us Dutch
and several other countries are ahead of the curve there. I
refuse to lower my standards or compromise my integrity - if I
were to not post this story just becaus