^You posted that as a reply to me, but the content doesn't seem to be addressing what I wrote. I'll play along.
"There's no opinion more valid than another" is, simply, false. There's people who believe that the earth is flat, and there's people who think that governments inoculate populations with spying nano-machines mixed in the vaxines.
The freedom of expression means that everyone can pit their opinion in the arena against other opinions. But then opinions live and die by the strength of the arguments that support them - scientific, philosophic, rethorical.
The freedom to enter the fight is not equal to the right to never lose.
In this case we're pitting the concrete rights of real people to live happily and constitute families, the right to be treated as equal when it comes to legacy or to taking important decisions about medical procedures for their spouse. On the other side we have what? The offense someone might take because they don't like seeing two men or two women holding hands and kissing in public? The opinion that there's a higher being that is offended by some of the sexual orientations that happen to exist, but not others?
Mr Card is free to have this latter idea, but the day he acts - and expression is an action, especially for a creator of intellectual content - to actually hinder the betterment of the lives of people who cause no harm to anybody, is the day I find perfectly acceptable to fight against his opinion and its derivatives. Which is happening with legal and pacific means.
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