Latest Anti-Prop 8 Stunt: 'Call in Gay' to Work

I could make a crude reference to how Wednesday is also commonly known as hump day, but we like to keep things highbrow around here.

Just the latest in the five-week temper tantrum by the angry, militant gays.

So childish.

Some same-sex marriage supporters are urging people to "call in gay" Wednesday to show how much the country relies on gays and lesbians, but others question whether it's wise to encourage skipping work given the nation's economic distress.

Organizers of "Day Without a Gay" — scheduled to coincide with International Human Rights Day and modeled after similar work stoppages by Latino immigrants — also are encouraging people to perform volunteer work and refrain from spending money.

Sean Hetherington, a West Hollywood comedian and personal trainer, dreamed up the idea with his boyfriend, Aaron Hartzler, after reading online that a few angry gay-rights activists were calling for a daylong strike to protest California voters' passage last month of Proposition 8, which reversed this year's state Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage.

It isn't clear who a comedian would call in gay to, but let's humor them.

Hetherington said he has been careful to design A Day Without a Gay — he came up with the name after the film "A Day Without a Mexican" and liked it because it rhymed — so no one feels excluded or threatened.

He has specifically urged high school students not to walk out of their classes and assured college students they won't be disloyal to the cause if they go ahead and take their final exams.

Gee, that's awfully magnanimous of him, making sure the kids get their education.

Though this does create some dilemmas for the non-angry gay community. What happens if a heterosexual happens to come down with a bug that day? Should they call work pretending to be gay or use a plain old sick day? Can they pretend to be a gay Mexican? What if they're a Mormon? Will that cause confusion?

So many questions, so few answers.

Better yet, how about everyone grow up, move on with their lives and stop being such a nuisance?

I mean, how many people can get run over by the mob's bus before things start getting out of hand?

Thanks to Hot Air, Ace and protein wisdom for the links.

Update: According to Hot Air, things may not quite be going according to plan. Heartbreaking, isn't it?

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Shock Poll: Religious People Oppose Gay Marriage

Anything they can do to avoid blaming Obama voters for abolishing gay marriage.

Voters' economic status and religious convictions played a greater role than race and age in determining whether they supported the Nov. 4 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California, a new poll shows.

The ban drew its strongest support from both evangelical Christians and voters who didn't attend college, according to results released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Age and race, meanwhile, were not as strong factors as assumed. According to the poll, 56 percent of voters over age 55 and 57 percent of nonwhite voters cast a yes ballot for the gay marriage ban.

After Two-Week Temper Tantrum, California Supremes to Hear Challenge to Prop 8

If anything, it'll give the children a time-out two weeks in coming.

Question: If they do not rule in favor of the gay mob, what then? Considering how nasty the insane rage has been, who knows what the psychotic reaction could be.

California's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and let the ban stand in the meantime.

A decision by the same court in May had opened marriage to same-sex couples in America's most populous state, one of a handful of states, provinces and mostly European countries where such unions are recognized.

When state voters passed the ban on November 4, social conservatives celebrated, but nationwide protests by gays and other ban opponents since then have given the debate new life.

The court case also pits two fundamental concepts of U.S. democracy against one another, with gay marriage advocates saying the proposition would open the doors to systematic repression of minorities and opponents saying courts must recognize the will of the people under separation of powers doctrine.

"I am optimistic that the Supreme Court will affirm that separate is not equal," San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. "This is a great day for the rule of law and the voters of California," said Andrew Pugno, counsel for the gay marriage ban proponents.

Let's all hope the out of control, radical gay community will now enjoy a few months downtime and stop harassing ans intimidating people, though if I were in the California Supreme Court, I'd probably be prepared for all sorts of antics.

Gay Temper Tantrum Goes Nationwide

They've now spread the "H8" to includes Catholics as well as Mormons.

The protests were widely reported to be peaceful, and the mood in Boston was generally upbeat, with attendees dancing to the song "Respect." Signs cast the fight for gay marriage as the new civil rights movement, including one that read "Gay is the new black."

But anger over the ban and its backers was evident at the protests.

One sign in Chicago read: "Catholic Fascists Stay Out of Politics."

"I just found out that my state doesn't really think I'm a person," said Rose Aplustill, 21, a Boston University student from Los Osos, Calif., who was one of thousands at the Boston rally.

In San Francisco, demonstrators took shots at some religious groups that supported the ban, including a sign aimed at the Mormon church and its abandoned practice of polygamy that read: "You have three wives; I want one husband."

Chris Norberg, who married his partner in June, also referred to the racial divisions that arose after exit polls found that majorities of blacks and Hispanics supported the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

"They voted against us," Norberg said.

Indeed, they did. Now grow up and get over it. Try again next election and quit the sniveling.

NY Times: Hey, Let's All Play Make Believe and Blame Mormons Insteads of Blacks For Passage of Prop 8

This exemplifies why what was formerly known at the mainstream media is now really most sincerely dead. Despite conclusive evidence demonstrating that Obama voters sealed the fate of gay marriage in California, the hapless New York Times painstakingly avoids the obvious and, pathetically, still blames the Mormons. The headline actually reads Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage, as if a huge Obama vote is to be dismissed.

What. A. Joke.

Not once in the two-page item is the obvious even mentioned.

Just pathetic.

Isn't This Special: White Powder Sent to Mormon Temples in Utah and Los Angeles

No doubt the Mormons will cave and go along with gay marriage now. I mean, what else sends the message of tolerance more than sending suspicious white powder?

Letters containing a suspicious white powder were sent Thursday to Mormon temples in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City that were the sites of protests against the church's support of California's gay marriage ban.

The temple in the Westwood area of Los Angeles was evacuated before a hazardous materials crew determined the envelope's contents were not toxic, said FBI spokesman Jason Pack.

The temple in downtown Salt Lake City, where the church is based, received a similar envelope containing a white powder that spilled onto a clerk's hand.

The room was decontaminated and the envelope taken by the FBI for testing. The clerk showed no signs of illness, but the scare shut down a building at Temple Square for more than an hour, said Scott Freitag, a spokesman for the Salt Lake City Fire Department.

None of the writing on the envelope was threatening, and the church received no calls or messages related to the package, Freitag said.

Protests in recent days have targeted the Mormon church, which encouraged its members to fight the recently passed amendment banning gay marriage in California.

Authorities are looking into several theories on who sent the letters and why, Pack said.

Here's a theory: It was some angry radical gays who are now in Day 10 of a massive temper tantrum.

Since the Obama-supporting black community voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8, should we expect black churches to be receiving mysterious packages of white powder?

Confirmed: Huge Obama Surge Sealed Prop 8 Victory

While the ugly antics of the radical gay forces of intolerance continue to focus on Mormons, it's now clear that a huge black turnout for Barack Obama in California resulted in the passage of Proposition 8, outlawing gay marriage.

Supporters of same-sex marriage rights are fuming over California voters' approval of Proposition 8, which would place a ban on such marriages in the state constitution – especially since in other respects voters showed a somewhat left-of-center bent, including a massive victory by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Ironically, however, a mathematical analysis of voting and exit poll data indicates very strongly that it was exactly that pro-Obama surge that spelled victory for Proposition 8.

When Proposition 8's passage first became apparent, it was widely assumed that hundreds of thousands of first-time or occasional voters had turned out to vote for Obama, then left the rest of their ballots blank, thus allowing more conservative voters to dominate ballot measures.

In fact, however, there was very little voting drop-off. There are still some late absentee and provisional ballots to be counted, but as of Monday, 10.96 million votes had been tallied in the presidential race and 10.85 million for and against Proposition 8.

The only conclusion, therefore, is that as Obama was running up a 2.6 million-vote victory over Republican John McCain in California – twice the margins by which Democrats won in 2000 and 2004 – a great many Obama voters were also voting for Proposition 8, sponsored by a very conservative religious coalition.

Proposition 8, in fact, garnered 1.6 million more votes than McCain received. And, it's apparent, many of those votes – enough to make the difference – came from African American and Latino voters drawn to the polls by Obamamania.

Hence, the conundrum of the left. Sure, many on the left (and right) support gay marriage, yet it's now evident many do not, and having a week-long public temper tantrum bordering on the violent is not helping the cause.

Ace sums it up.

No, they don't represent the whole of the movement. But they do represent a perpetually seething, decidedly countercultural aspect of the Gay Left that frankly gives the rest of us the shivering douchechills and sometimes makes us want to affirmatively just stick a thumb in their eyes (in political terms).

Not a rational response, that last part. But that is an effect of this ACT-UP type hatred.

Geez, I had forgotten by now the antics ACT-UP to pull back in the early and mid-80s. Wild-eyed and raging, they never much helped their own cause.

But things are different now. The left is used to getting their way, and public rage has been rewarded handsomely. They'll just keep agitating until they found the requisite amount of judges to throw out Prop 8 as unconstitutional, and it helps when you have the Governor on your side and he doesn't even have the spine to condemn nonsense like this.

Barack Obama has stated publicly he does not support gay marriage and those who voted for him evidently feel the same way to a large degree. The losers need to accept that reality, and maybe hope they're not swept up in Obamamania again.

To put it another way, had Obama not been so popular and had voter turnout been more traditional – meaning the proportion of white voters had been higher – chances are fairly strong that Proposition 8 would have failed.

Some gay rights leaders have been bitter that voters from two ethnic groups that have experienced discrimination should vote so strongly to deny gays the right to marry. But they could take solace from the statistical probability that in an election with less excitement and a lower turnout, they'd probably prevail.

They should also take note many blacks and Latinos do not equate the struggles of gays on the same par as the ethnic discrimination they've faced in the past, and resent the comparison.

Meanwhile, the Democrats in the state legislature have decided they don't care about the rights of certain individuals.

Question: If the will of the majority can be ignored on a ballot, can we ignore how they voted for President?

GayPatriotWest has thoughts on the strategy of those demonstrating.

I have my theories on why these people are rallying, but I don’t think it does much good for the cause (or the community) for people to vent in public. It makes it appear to the world that we, at least those rallying, are not ready for marriage.

And what are they so angry about? That the state won’t recognize same-sex unions as marriage? We can still call them marriage on our own. And the Golden State still recognizes and grants privileges to same-sex couples, calling them domestic partnerships instead of marriage.

Seething Gay Activists Urge Boycott of Black People

Oh, sorry, I meant against the state of Utah. Conveniently omitted from this story is the fact 70% of the black voters in California rejected gay marriage at the ballot Tuesday, but going after the base of the party wouldn't help the cause, so it's time for a diversion. Since these bigots hate Mormons, they make a convenient target.

Nice to see the Washington Post use an angry far-left blogger as a source here.

Utah's growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its aggressive promotion of California's ban on gay marriage.

It could be a heavy price to pay. Tourism brings in $6 billion a year to Utah, with world-class skiing, spectacular red-rock country and the film festival founded by Robert Redford among popular tourist draws.

Gay rights activist John Aravosis, whose well-trafficked AmericaBlog.com is urging the boycott, is unapologetic about targeting Utah rather than California, where voters defined marriage in the state Constitution as a heterosexual act.

Utah, Aravosis said, "is a hate state," and on this issue, "at a fundamental level, the Utah Mormons crossed the line. . . . They just took marriage away from 20,000 couples and made their children bastards. You don't do that and get away with it."

Typical leftist intimidation tactics. When the little babies don't get their way, they flip out, make threats and blackmail an entire state.

Meanwhile, one of the dumbest people on the planet said California voters were too stupid to understand what they were doing. She has a point. They did vote for her.

Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the link.

Unable to Come to Grips With Defeat, Angry Militant Gays Lash Out at Blacks

It's getting ugly in California. The forces of tolerance and diversity are flipping out over the overwhelmingly liberal state putting a halt to gay marriage.

It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.

Raw, unexpurgated liberal hate on display. Just imagine if these weren't two protected classes. We'd never hear the end of it.

Much of the rage is directed toward the Mormon Church. And it's really ugly. Why can't some people just accept defeat and MoveOn? Geez, if Republicans acted like this after losing the other day we'd never hear the end of the ridicule.

Just last week we were told how liberals were walking down the street with smiles on their faces. Does this guy look like he's smiling?

Obama Voters Decisive on California Gay Marriage Ban

Confusing times for supporters of gay marriage in California. Considering it was overwhelming support from the black and Latino vote that helped Propostion 8 pass on Tuesday, how are the gay marriage proponents going to label Obama supporters homophobes and bigots?

California's black and Latino voters, who turned out in droves for Barack Obama, provided key support for a state ban on same-sex marriage. Christian, married and older voters also helped give the measure the winning edge, according to exit polls for The Associated Press.

Proposition 8 overturns a May California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay nuptials and rewrites the state constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Exit poll data showed seven in 10 black voters and more than half of Latino voters backed the ballot initiative, while whites and Asians were split.

Though blacks and Latinos combined make up less than one-third of California's electorate, their opposition to same-sex marriage appeared to tip the balance. Both groups decisively backed Obama regardless of their position on the initiative.

Of course, now that the people have spoken, those who did not get their way are rushing to court to thwart the will of the people.

Mr. Sulu is not happy.

Actor George Takei and longtime partner Brad Altman were the first to receive a marriage license in West Hollywood when a court cleared the way for gay marriage earlier this year. Best known for his role as Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," Takei on Wednesday was disappointed but philosophical about California voters' decision to yank that right by passing a constitutional amendment restricting marriage to heterosexual couples.

"There are going to be heartbreaks, setbacks and sacrifices to be made," he said, "but we will soldier on."

The passage of Proposition 8 stirred anger, protests, lawsuits and a deep sense of loss among gays in California. At least three legal challenges were filed by Wednesday night and others were being prepared, ban opponents said.

Question: If a ballot amendment that passes can be overturned, can McCain supporters overturn the vote for Obama?

More here.

"What the exit polls say is that religion trumps party affiliation when it comes to social issues," said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll. The exit poll was done by Edison Media Research.

It also trumped racial identification. While Obama publicly backed the "No on Prop. 8" effort, African American voters had no trouble voting overwhelmingly for the man who will be the nation's first black president and then voting 70 percent in favor of Prop. 8, exit polls showed.

It was a grim evening Tuesday in San Francisco for supporters of same-sex marriage, who saw Prop. 8 move into the lead minutes after the polls closed and stay ahead all night. Except in the Bay Area and a smattering of other counties, the measure was approved in three-fourths of the state's 58 counties, including Democratic strongholds such as Los Angeles and Sacramento counties.