[massgopguy]

COME AND GET ME!!!!!!!

[Glenn]

So? It's a free country. People were free to sign the petition. Other people are free to publish it. Unless we have secret petition processes now.

[Abathar]

LOL! Please, oh PLEASE!!! step up to my front door and start protesting me signing a petition to ban gay marriage. I know I must lead a boring life to actually look forward to something like that, but I can't help it, that would be more fun than a barrel of monkeys to me.

[mother22wife21]

I think your escalation trained animals would come in real handy with these drama divas.

[Fenris6]

Gotta go out and buy more shotgun shells.

[MineralMan]

I'm sure the people who signed the petition are not ashamed of having done so. This is a silly move on the part of this group.

The petition is a matter of public record, I'm sure. Therefore, anyone can publish it, if they want. It just seems stupid to me to do so. Why would anyone care that people know they signed the petition?

[Psycho_Bunny]

"The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut the f*ck up"

[MassRepublican]

Just checked - delighted to see I made the list. If it is a choice of answering to the Lord or to these activists - well, I'll take the Lord. Jesus made the definition of marriage very explicit in Mt 19:4-6. He answered, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."

[AbeKrieger]

"Get off my doorstep now or I will knock you off it."

[George - the Other]

I'll just have to indroduce them to my two companions, Twelve Guage and Thirty-Two Long.

[jmcenanly]

The director of the site, Thomas Lang, has made little effort to hide the fact that his intent is to have activists personally confront and challenge everyone who signs the petition, targeting citizens’ homes and businesses. ...
I thought that this was the sort of thing that the left deplored.
To harass citizens because their beliefs are not identical with yours is the basis of every totalitarian regime. I hope that Thomas Lang has second thoughts about what he is doing.

[fwdude]

Genesis 19

1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

3And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

[A. Pole]

Ready, Set, Harrass!

Boston, MA-Eric Francke, 12-22-05

After certification yesterday of the signatures for the marriage amendment banning gay marriage, the opposition, www.knowthyneighbor.org has announced that they have published the names and addresses of those who signed the petition.

The director of the site, Thomas Lang, has made little effort to hide the fact that his intent is to have activists personally confront and challenge everyone who signs the petition, targeting citizens’ homes and businesses.

''Everyone's scrambling to know who in their town would sign this,'' Lang told the Boston Herald. ''And this Web site will give gay people the tools to know, to defend themselves and their families, to let them go neighbor-to- neighbor and say, 'I don't appreciate your signing this.'" Lang said: "I'm going to be aggressive personally. I want to know that the people I do business with are not against [gay marriage]. This is going to be won by economics.''

In the announcement of the release of the names, Lang encourages activists to "engage in meaningful conversations with people who may not fully understand the implications of the proposed amendment on the lives of same-sex couples and their families....A face-to-face conversation with someone you know can be a powerful way to break through the superficial barriers that separate us."

The www.knowthyneighbor.org site provides those who sign an opportunity to click on a link to remove their name from the list of signers of the petition. Presumably the intention is that if enough activists call, picket, intimidate or otherwise harass the petition signers, they will go to the site and request that their name be removed from the list, thus giving the activists ammunition to challenge the petition. The site already claims some 250 volunteers ready to achieve their goals.

This effort to stop the gathering of signatures is similar to what happened to the Protection of Marriage amendment in 2001, when they also posted individual's names on the internet. The names and addresses of his "volunteers" are not disclosed by Lang.