Posted on 11/19/2008 7:58:30 AM PST by dbz77
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?
all i know is that some anti 8 people were standing in line with us handing out flyers for no on 8, we told them that they can’t do that, they said we are 50’ away from the polling door and it is legal.
rump wrangling, butt boy alert.
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Reminds me of all the Republican riots after the election of Obama. . . .
Oh, wait.
Next time (for different liberal cause) say “Oh thank you, can I have a stack to pass out at work?”
Maybe engage them in conversation, act enthused, and keep them occupied.
The File 13 the brochures.
lol, the woman standing next to me asked the person if she believed in Jesus the brochur person said why yes, then the woman next to me said the bible said that life style is an obamanation.
I laughed.
lol, the woman standing next to me asked the person if she believed in Jesus the brochur person said why yes, then the woman next to me said the bible said that life style is an obamanation.
I laughed. the brochure person left us be.
Here is the bottom line. They have so much rage because they HATE THEMSELVES. They know their lifestyle is wrong and they keep thinking if society accepts them, they’ll, at long last, feel good about themselves. But they never will. When they are alone, in the dark, they know what they are doing is wrong and no amount of societal acceptance will change that.
Heh Heh Heh
These people are deranged. What do they really know about marriage? And what happens if they get it? Reminds me of two year-olds who cry and cry for a toy, then after they get it and play with it for two-minutes, they drop the toy and go play with something else.
They want this only as a way to demean marriage. Otherwise, a civil union would be fine.
And though it is disgusting to mention, consider this.
Think back through the political debates in American history, and then realize now that our nations “big issue”, is that we are unfairly stigmatizing anal sex?
We are living through sad times in America.
Now and for all time, that is the answer to the rage some homos have. I have known a few who were comfortable in their skin, but most had a streak of "activist" in them, brought on by the feelings you describe.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Prop. 8 won, whether they like it or not.
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The same thing happened here in Massachusetts.
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