Prop 8 Opponents Show Their Hate for Supporters
The Issue: Tonight in Palm Springs an elderly woman was harrassed by gay marriage supporters for expressing support for Prop 8. The Proposition’s opposition side has shown they hate the Prop 8 supporters as much as they claim the supporters hate them. See the video
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Anaylsis: The video speaks for itself.
All of these efforts are pointless after the fact. Peaceful acts of civil disobedience prior to voters or lawmakers making their decisions can be effective (for example, before elections or important government votes), but these action are both not civil and not going to influence policy. They further spread the hate the instigators claim to be trying to stop.
It’s also worth noting that Phylis was asking for it. She deliberately walked into a crowd of Prop 8 protesters. I don’t advocate for that kind of confrontation. There is a reason we have elections and politics: so we can battle using our words and our votes, not our fists and guns.
It is amazing that the hate label sticks to us when we actually take a live and let live approach to gays. We just don’t like it when they shove their agenda down our throats.
If you want to disarm the liberals, just point out that if homosexuality could be detected in utero that you would be against those abortions, and ask them if they would agree to make those abortions illegal.
I have yet to find a heterosexual liberal who doesn’t love abortion rights more than gays. So this argument is a great way to make them squirm and to point out how ridiculous it is for them to label you as a homophobe. After all, they think it should be legal to destroy gays in the womb (even hypothetically) while you think they should be protected.
The most I’ve ever seen them say in response is that I’m against all abortions, so specific protections for gays isn’t meaningful. But I point out that if this was the only restriction made that I’d favor it.
It also forces them to reconsider their pro-abortion views, because it points out how the unborn are real human beings. That is one reason they fight any exceptions, even for gender selection abortions. They know that once you concede the humanity of the unborn for any reason then other abortions wouldn’t be justified.