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What do you do if you disagree with a law?
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If you disagree with a law then never convict someone for breaking it if you are on his jury. People generally love to oppress themselves by taking away other people's freedom. Then they end up without any freedom themselves.
Always support freedom. 
It might not have been illegal to be gay in the 70's, but being open about it could lead to problems. Nevertheless, I openly participated in several gay rights organizations and marched in public too.
I recall one rally in a park, and prior to it starting, there were cops everywhere, and they were clearly looking for something. I thought maybe there was a lost kid, but it turned out there was a bomb threat and they were looking for that, but didn't want to cause a stampede, either. Probably the most anxious I ever got was at an AIDS march in the 80s. We had several people in our group that were positive, and identifiable as such, and some had pretty serious health issues to be undertaking a long parade route on foot on a hot day. Besides being worried about negative reactions (or worse) from the spectators, it seemed a miracle no one needed an ambulance for their illness flaring up. Brian was there too. He was so brave, and so fucking sick with it, but he refused to stay home or watch from the sidelines. The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
I would say it depends on the law.
If it is a law that discriminates, I will always support more freedom. If my breaking of the law takes away freedoms for others, then I shouldn't break the law in protest.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Either break it (openly or in secret depending on the law) or support/fight for its change. For the latter it would have to be a really disagreeable law.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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