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If you cancelled or banned Mardi Gras, you would be denying the benefits of Mardi Gras to everyone equally.

Mardi Gras beads are a good example -- nobody does anything for Mardi Gras beads that they aren't sort-of looking for an excuse to do anyway.

The only way your argument makes sense to me is if you banned Mardi Gras only for gay people.

Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and stay up all night wandering the streets.

For people like the Mardi Gras bomber it would be people working at banks.

We've got Mardi Gras, Jeni's Splend, and Graeters within walking or driving distance.

We also have New Orleans, Mardi Gras, and much political corruption and cronyism.

How is gay marriage analogous to Mardi Gras in this context?

Look at what some will do for Mardi Gras beads.

One of the biggest parties there other than mardi gras.

In the last few months I've done some awesome stuff (Like going to Mardi Gras, and hiking national parks, and partying with spring-breakers).

The mardi gras (at least the one where I live) needs to die.

Some "pickpocket-proof" pants might be a good investment if you ever go to a concert, Mardi Gras, or other crowded gathering in the future.

Most recently, 3 "nos" in New Orleans (non mardi-gras season).

The analogy I outlined was about having an opposing opinion on something that is "owned" by the gay community, such as mardi gras, and expressing that opinion without being labelled a bigot.

I think a pretty good anecdotal data point relating "issues due to alcohol" to "issues due to drugs" is the relative lack of injuries and crimes at Burning Man versus, say, Mardi Gras, Coachella, etc.

Now if Sydney has a plague of Locusts/Earthquake it may be time to postpone Mardi-Gras and Sleaze Ball...

(Mardi Gras down in New Orleans comes to mind as an example—a little poorer the U.