Tolerance in action — San Francisco style!

Posted on November 26, 2008

CA Prop 8 – Whose Rights are Being Violated?

Michelle Malkin: The insane rage of the same-sex marriage mob

Before election day, national media hand-wringers 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 in 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, there’s only one angry mob gripped by “insane rage” in the wake of campaign 2008: The mob of left-wing, same-sex marriage activists incensed at their defeat in California. Voters there approved a traditional marriage initiative, Proposition 8, by 52-48.

Instead of introspection and self-criticism, however, the sore losers who opposed Prop. 8 have responded with threats, fists, and blacklists.

Glen Lavy in the San Diego UT: Reaction shows pretense of tolerance is over

As voters heard the arguments, support for redefining marriage eroded. The appeal of those trying to redefine marriage was based on a kind of “live and let live” superficiality. “How,” they asked, “will our getting married harm you?” The answer would come swiftly and dramatically.

Many voters did not see the inevitable conflict between the activist attempt to redefine marriage and religious liberty and conscience, but stories and examples emerged. Firefighters in San Diego were forced to participate in a sexually charged “Gay Pride” parade against their wishes. A first grade class was taken to view their teacher’s wedding to another woman, which the teacher called a “teachable moment.”

Stories arriving from other parts of the country reinforced the issue. When a Christian ministry in New Jersey did not permit two women to conduct a same-sex civil union ceremony on its property, because that was contrary to its beliefs, the women filed a complaint under the state anti-discrimination laws, and the ministry faced a loss of its property tax exemption.

Even as opponents denied any threats to religious liberty or parental rights, two families from Massachusetts, which judicially redefined “marriage,” came to California to prove the denials false. Their children, in first grade and kindergarten, were read, with no parental notification, books like King and King, the story of two men who get married. Worse yet, the parents were told there was no opt out because schools were tasked with teaching the meaning of marriage.

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