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On Yoel Romero, intolerance, and the discrimination against equality for religious purposes

Karim Zidan delves into Yoel Romero’s controversial comments on the UFC broadcast and why athletes should be held accountable for their intolerance.

Not too long ago, a Louisiana judge broke a string of 21 consecutive victories for same-sex marriage when he ruled against their rights in the first major defeat since the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. The man responsible for this decision, Judge Martin LC Feldman, believed that same-sex marriage would possibly bring about "unintended consequences" such as familial incest.

It is an argument that many who opposed same-sex marriage vehemently spewed: If gay people get married, what is to stop father and child, brother and sister, and group marriages?