Speaking out or acting in a certain way is never without consequences. Free speech simply guarantees that you will not be bothered by the government.

He should have seen it coming. You can't be an asshole and have your cake too.

Yeah, free speech doesn't guarantee people won't also then use their free speech to talk about what a horrible thing it is you just said.

Things actually have consequences y'all.

I remember discussing this with my brother. His argument was that if men were allowed to marry other men, it would open the door to men marrying goats. I say marriage should be between two consenting adults and leave it at that. As for Mr. Eich being fired for something he did 6 years ago, how many of us have done something in the past that would have gotten us fired and not suffered any consequences? It is possible he was fired because someone wanted a reason. Yes, marriage has lost its meaning, I know a few people who live together and raise children as a family without it. They are happy and that is all that matters.

Why only two consenting adults?

To me it'd be the opposite. It shows that a company will throw you away at the slightest issue of PR instead of standing behind you and telling everyone to screw off and get their facts straight.

It's also showing they don't do extensive checks on their future CEOs, or understand what people will actually be upset about. It's one, or two, notches against their company even if they automatically throw him away (which they did.)

You bigot! How dare you oppress our right to have only monogamous marriages!

It was nothing short of a witch hunt and it is only going to make things worse for the LGBT community having laid waste to a man's freedoms. If he doesn't even have the freedom to legally give his money to who he wants to then good luck fighting for the rights of homosexuals and transgendered individuals. You think you're on the right side of this debate by flailing your torches around, but you're really making things worse.

Allowing bigamy will NEVER happen. Before that happens, the whole word has to change and the concept as well. The word itself implies that one person is married to two persons. If bigamy would be allowed, I could marry another woman without asking my wife first. Perhaps I wouldn't even let her know. That might actually usually be the case, when someone has committed bigamy. It should be called threesome and it should include three persons, who get married together, at the same time. If a married couple decided to get a third person into the game, they should first divorce and then re-marry as a threesome. The main purpose of laws stating about marriage is to protect individuals, and a law about bigamy/threesome should take in consideration all aspects of a three person marriage. I bet it will be too difficult, that's why no law maker will take the challenge. Compared to that, gay marriage is a piece of fruitcake.

If you think the word threesome is not proper, I can tell you that in Finnish we have the clever verb naida, which means both to marry someone and to shag someone.

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Reminds me of a comedy, where the joke was about a guy, who thought bigamy was about two persons. He lived happily with his wife, until they heard that bigamy was illegal, so they decided to go trigamy. Which improved their sex life a lot. Well, it was all in Finnish, and therefore a lot funnier. Bigamy is kaksinnainti in Finnish, which refers to marrying twice. But if you think nainti is about shagging, kaksinnainti simply means two having a fuck.

I think polygamy sounds brilliant. Donald Trump's seven wives would probably all hate each other and fight over who gets to be his favorite. Sounds like another awful reality TV show in the making.

But seriously, I guess one problem with polygamy is that it can easily weaken individual rights and gender equality. It doesn't have to, but it could be difficult to figure out how it's going to work legally. I'm not against it on principle, but it sounds like it could get messy. What Johan said, basically.

The government doesn't want "two consenting adults" just for tax purposes. Married couples get extra tax benefits.

As for polygamy, good luck with that one.

Yeah, the best society will give you is an "Open Relationship" status on your social media profile.