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Why does yahoo close comments to all articles dealing with gay marriage issues?

They have other controversial articles besides this topic, often with tens of thousands of comments, but every time a gay issue article pops up, the comments inevitably close...sometimes immediately (as recently with their Imperial County article), sometimes after a few hundred or thousand comments. Why do this on such an important topic?

Update:

@Poohbear: Yeah, I'm not questioning their right to do it...just their motivations.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They're probably sick and tired of the comments section being used as soapboxes by hate-mongering Christian fundamentalists.

    Remember, Yahoo is still a private site - not a public or government one. They have the right to do whatever they want to with their site.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hi! Because the search engine(yahoo) is still a private site, people uses the site to search for hundreds of thousands of important ideas and thoughts rather than that kind of topic though.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    it is not merely Christians, nonetheless. Even Atheists and human beings of alternative religions are uncomfortable with the conception to boot. We merely finally end up pointing palms on the Christian community, because the Christians that are adverse to it are the loudest. I truly accept as true with you on a lot of your factors, it is ridiculous how those Christians who're adverse to gay marriage carry forth about fairness and kindness in direction of others, and yet they hate all of us with gay inclinations. notwithstanding, you need to understand from their perspective. in case you imagine about it, it does seem unnatural for 2 men or 2 women human beings to be at the same time because there is truly no thanks to make a touch one which way. From what i have considered and heard, there are believed to be many parts contained in the Bible itself that state how homosexuality is a sin. it ought to seem ridiculous to you strategies they don't realize it, yet homosexuality is going adverse to each and every thing they position self assurance in and it is complicated to bypass adverse to that. merely imagine your self chatting with a bunch of human beings like that, who truly hate the conception of homosexuality. would not you develop into infuriated? annoyed because they couldn't understand how stupid they are being. nicely, the feeling you sense, it really is the same ingredient that they sense at the same time as they imagine about we who trust it is alright to be gay, or lesbian, or bi, or transgendered. They sense we are stupid for not understanding that it is incorrect at the same time as it is excellent there contained in the bible.

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