Prop. 8 Opponents Now Go After Blacks As Well
Yesterday, we reported that increasingly more opponents of California’s Proposition 8 – which bans gay marriage – have joined a hateful campaign against Catholics and Mormons out of anger for their defeat this Tuesday.
Proposition 8 banned gay marriage, and was approved by a majority of California voters. The initiative was endorsed by many, also by churches such as the Catholic church and the Mormon church.
They threatened to use violence against these churches, burning them down, assaulting their members, and so on.
In the comment section of one such post, “Hate in the Service of Tolerance,” readers remarked that a majority of African Americans supported Proposition 8, just like Mormons and Catholics did. Why didn’t the ‘gay lobby’ go after blacks, these people wondered?
They then answered their question, of course, by explaining that blacks are an important part of the Democratic Base, whereas Catholics and Mormons are not. Gay activists cannot afford to anger blacks, the argument went.
Well, quite some gay activists seem to disagree: many of them have now launched a massive campaign against blacks as well, accusing them of a lack of ‘compassion’ and ‘tolerance.’ Blacks walking down the street were herassed for being anti-tolerance, even though some of them were carrying “no to prop. 8″ signs with them. When they said they opposed Proposition 8, they were simply told that “their people” are inherently intolerant and hateful.
The situation has the potential to run completely out of hand. Religious voters and now blacks are attacked by gay activists, pretending to be activists for tolerance.
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