The Insane Hate of the Same-Sex Marriage Mob
Before Election Day, national media handwringers forged
a wildly popular narrative: The right was, in the words of New York Times
columnist Paul Krugman, gripped by “insane rage.” Outbreaks of incivility (some
real, but mostly imagined) were proof positive of the extremist takeover of the
Republican Party. The cluck-cluckers and tut-tutters shook with fear.
But when the GOP took a beating on Nov. 4, no mass protests ensued; no
nationwide boycotts erupted. Conservatives took their lumps and began the
peaceful post-defeat process of self-flagellation, self-analysis and
self-autopsy.
In fact, in the wake of campaign 2008 there’s only one angry mob gripped by
“insane rage”: left-wing same-sex marriage activists incensed at their defeat in
California. Voters there approved Proposition 8, a traditional marriage
initiative, by 52 percent to 48 percent.
Instead of introspection and self-criticism, however, the sore losers who
opposed Prop. 8 responded with threats, fists and blacklists.
That’s right. Activists have published on the Internet an “Anti-Gay Blacklist”
of Prop. 8 donors. If the tables were turned and Prop. 8 proponents created such
an enemies list, everyone in Hollywood would be screaming “McCarthyism” faster
than you could count to eight.
A Los Angeles restaurant whose manager made a small donation to the Prop. 8
campaign has been besieged nightly by hordes of protesters who have disrupted
business, intimidated patrons and brought employees to tears. Out of fear for
their jobs and their lives, workers at El Coyote Mexican Cafe pooled together
$500 to pay off the bullies.
Scott Eckern, the beleaguered artistic director of California Musical Theatre in
Sacramento, was forced to resign over his $1,000 donation to the Prop. 8
campaign. Rich Raddon, director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, is next on the
chopping block after the anti-Prop. 8 mob discovered that he had also
contributed to the “Yes on 8” campaign. Calls have been pouring in for his
firing.
Over the last two weeks, anti-Prop. 8 organizers have targeted Mormon, Catholic
and evangelical churches. Sentiments like this one, found on the anti-Prop.8
website “JoeMyGod,” are common across the left-wing blogosphere: “Burn their
f---ing churches to the ground, and then tax the charred timbers.”
Thousands of gay-rights demonstrators stood in front of the Mormon temple in Los
Angeles shouting “Mormon scum.” The Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City
received threatening letters containing an unidentified powder. Religion-bashing
protesters filled with hate decried the “hate” at Rick Warren’s Saddleback
Church in Orange County, Calif. Vandals defaced the Calvary Chapel in Chino
Hills, Calif., because church members had collected Prop. 8 petitions. One
worshiper’s car was keyed with the slogans “Gay sex is love” and “SEX.” Another
car’s antenna and windshield wipers were broken.
In Carlsbad, Calif., a man was charged with punching his elderly neighbors over
their pro-Prop. 8 signs. In Palm Springs, Calif., a videographer filmed unhinged
anti-Prop. 8 marchers who yanked a large cross from the hands of 69-year-old
Phyllis Burgess and stomped on it.
In San Francisco, Christians evangelizing in the Castro District needed police
protection after the same-sex marriage mob got physical and hounded them off the
streets. Enthusiastically shooting themselves in the foot, anti-Prop. 8
boycotters are now going after the left-wing Sundance Film Festival because it
does business in Mormon-friendly Utah.
Also targeted: Cinemark Theaters across the country. The company’s CEO, Alan
Stock, donated just under $10,000 to the traditional marriage measure. Never
mind that Cinemark theaters are hosting the new biopic about gay icon Harvey
Milk. They must pay for the sins of the company head who dared to exercise his
political free speech.
Corporate honchos, church leaders and small donors alike are in the same-sex
marriage mob’s crosshairs, all unfairly demonized as hate-filled bigots by bona
fide hate-filled bigots who have abandoned decency in pursuit of “equal rights.”
One wonders where Barack Obama—himself an opponent of Proposition 8 -- is as
this insane rage rages on. Soul-Fixer, Nation-Healer, where art thou?
Is it any wonder that some Christian Falangists want to get the leaders of these radical homos one by one and smash their faces in beating them to a bloody pulp? These hate filled homo-Nazis need to get a taste of their own medicine.....I'd like to see one of these sodomites grab a cross out of my hands and stomp on it.
10.19.08