What Happens If Youre on the Gay “Enemies List”
The Mormon Church is not the only group being singled out for criticism. African-Americans, 70% of whom voted yes on Proposition 8, according to a CNN exit poll, have become a target. According to eyewitness reports published on the Internet, racial epithets have been used against African-Americans at protests in California, directed even at blacks who are fighting to repeal Proposition 8. Said Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, “In any fight, there will be people who say things they shouldn’t say, but that shouldn’t divert attention from what the vast majority are saying against this, that it’s a terrible injustice.” (See the Top 10 ballot measures.)
In addition to protests, gay activists have begun publishing lists online exposing individuals and organizations who have donated money in support of Proposition 8. On AntiGayBlacklist.com, individuals who gave money toward Proposition 8 are publicized, with readers urged not to patronize their businesses or services. The list of donors was culled from data on ElectionTrack.com, which follows all contributions of over $1,000 and all contributions of over $100 given before October 17. Dentists, accountants, veterinarians and the like who gave a few thousand dollars to the cause are listed alongside major donors like the Container Supply Co., Inc. of Garden Grove, Calif., which gave $250,000. “Anyone who steps into a political fight aimed at taking away fundamental rights from fellow citizens opens themselves up to criticism,” said Wolfson. “The First Amendment gives them the right of freedom of speech and to support political views, but people also have the right to criticize them.”
As usual, it depends on who is making the list.
Liberals like to speak darkly of the 1950s Hollywood “Blacklists.” As if they were something that were sent down by the government and the studios unwillingly enforced. If you want to send any Liberal into a spin just mention Richard Nixon and his so-called “enemies list”.
But since it is a politically protected group, gays, making the list it is now acceptable. There are lists and there are lists.
It seems that elections are only allowed to go one way, the way that the left and their favored causes want. Any hitch in their progress to a society where everyone is subject to discipline for expressing the wrong opinion or holding unpopular beliefs is seen as some kind of conspiracy. They people that oppose them are not seen as human or having legitimate concerns. They’re “haters.” A word co opted to mean anyone that doesn’t agree with the aims or methods of the aggrieved parties.
So when an elderly woman showed up at one of their demonstrations to oppose them, they pushed her around, took her cross, threw it on the ground and stomped on it. In another case a group broke into a church in Michigan and disrupted the service. I’m not real clear about what they were attempting to accomplish by these actions but evidently they are not too concerned about building support for their movement rather than trying to coerce people into submission.
Their use of racial slurs to express their dissatisfaction with the votes of Blacks and Hispanics would have put them in a category with the KKK if not for their protected status in the liberal hierarchy.
A commenter on one of the stories asked “If they’re so upset with Blacks and Latinos in California, why are they disrupting the church services of a bunch of white people in Michigan? Why don’t they go disrupt the services at some of the Black or Latino churches in LA?”
You know why. The white folks are not going to pound them into the pavement. That’s why.
I do sympathize with them. But they’re not doing themselves any favors by throwing a giant temper tantrum.
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