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15

Prop 8 Proponents Speak Out Against Attacks

Posted By: 'Okie' | 11:31 am — 11/15/2008 | Comments Off See comments below:

From ProtectMarriage.com:

Today, leaders representing the broad coalition of Californians who supported Proposition 8 called on leaders of the No on Proposition 8 campaign, in addition to Senator Diane Feinstein and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to denounce the attacks against citizens who supported the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

“Amidst all this lawlessness, harassment, trampling of civil rights and now domestic terrorism, one thing stands out: the deafening silence of our elected officials. Not a single elected leader has spoken out against what is happening. Where is Governor Arnold Schwarzenengger while churches are being attacked? And where is Senator Dianne Feinstein while people are losing their jobs and grandmothers are being bullied by an angry mob?” said Campaign Co-Manager Frank Schubert.

The statement was made at the first press conference of the Protect Marriage coalition since election night when Proposition 8 was passed by California voters with 52.5% of the vote. In the past ten days, hostility has increased against people whose only offense was to exercise their right to participate in the political process.

Some of the outrageous activities include:

  • In Sacramento, a musical theater director was forced to resign after he was blacklisted for contributing $1000 to the initiative;
  • A Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles has been boycotted after a relative of the owner donated to the coalition;
  • Numerous churches have had their property defaced;
  • And an unknown white powder was mailed to several LDS temples and the National Headquarters of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization that supported the campaign.

The leadership of the ProtectMarriage.com coalition, a group of interfaith religious leaders, community leaders from a wide range of ethnic groups, and approximately 500 supporters of Yes on Proposition 8 gathered in Santa Ana to voice their opposition to the increasing attacks and harassment against supporters of traditional marriage.

Speaking on behalf of the African American community, Pastor Ed Smith of the Zoe Christian Fellowship of Whittier said: “Marriage is important to members of all faiths and all communities, but an election was held, the outcome was fair and people throughout California should honor it.”

“For 14 months, we have been called bigots and hatemongers and we have not retaliated against these unprecedented attacks,” Pastor Jim Garlow said. “But we will not be silenced.”


Michelle Malkin is wondering, “Where the soul-fixers and healers are[?]” Well, for one thing our governor is out there telling the anti-Prop 8 folks to never give up, to keep on keepin’ on until they get what they want. Would be nice if he’d tell them not to use terror tactics, not to harass the elderly or blacklist folks into unemployment while they’re out there “never giving up”. The LA Times reports there are anti-Prop 8 protests planned for today in over 300 cities across America. The anti-Prop 8 crowd is stepping up its boycott of businesses whose owners or employees can be found to have supported the pro side.

This appears to be turning into a war, or at the very least the latest, most important battle in the Culture War. Tick by tick, step by step, the secularists are working overtime to bring our society down to the lowest levels of debauchery and Godlessness. They don’t want tolerance, they want total acceptance. They’re right, and everyone else is wrong. Their main argument is that “marriage” is a “civil right”, and just like it is illegal to disallow interracial marriages, it should be illegal to disallow same-sex marriage. Dennis Prager refutes this argument nicely:

On the other hand, no religious or secular moral system ever advocated same-sex marriage. Whereas advocating interracial marriage was advocating something approved of by every religious and secular moral tradition of America and the West, advocating same-sex marriage does the very opposite — it advocates something that defies every religious and secular moral tradition. Those who advocate redefining marriage are saying that every religious and secular tradition is immoral. They have no problem doing this because they believe they are wiser and finer people than all the greatest Jewish, Christian and humanist thinkers who ever lived.

But as objectionable as hubris is, false comparisons are worse. And there is no comparison between different races and the different genders. There are no inherent racial differences; there are significant differences between the sexes. To the extent that racial groups are different, they are only because their cultures differ. But a black man’s nature is not different from that of a white man, an Asian man, an Hispanic man.

The same is not true of sex differences. Males and females are inherently different from one another. We now know that even their brains differ. And those differences are significant. Thus, to oppose interracial marriage is indeed to engage in bigotry, but to oppose same-sex marriage is not. It simply shares the wisdom of every moral system that preceded us — society is predicated on men and women bonding with one another in a unique way called “marriage.”

Comparing the prohibition of same-sex marriage to prohibiting interracial marriage is ultimately a way of declaring the moral superiority of proponents of same-sex marriage to proponents of keeping marriage defined as man-woman. And it is a way of avoiding hard issues such as whether we really want all children to grow up thinking it doesn’t matter if they marry a boy or a girl and whether we really want to abolish forever the ideal of husband-wife based family.

Those who wish to redefine marriage for the first time in Jewish, Christian or secular humanist history may offer any honest arguments they wish. Comparing the prohibition of same-sex marriage to prohibiting interracial marriage is not one of them.

It’s obvious by the actions of the anti-Prop 8 protesters that they don’t give a hairy rat’s ass about the civil rights of anyone besides themselves — like the right not to be terrorized, the right to make a living, the right to support a political measure, donate time and money and then vote for that measure.

Those civil rights they are working non stop to take away — oh, ya betcha! What a tolerant, open-minded set of folks they are . . .

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