article.nationalreview.com - 11/24/2008
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First the Mormons, then the rest.
latimes.com - 11/23/2008
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latimes.com —
Should there be boycotts, blacklists, firings or de
facto shunning of those who supported Proposition 8? That's...
the issue consuming many in liberal Hollywood who fought to defeat the initiative banning same-sex marriage and are now reeling with ...
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Liberal Hollywood ponders next step in fight for ...
newyorker.com - 11/26/2008
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newyorker.com —
Changes California Constitution to eliminate the right of
same-sex couples to marry. Provides that only marriage between...
a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. --Ballot summary, Proposition 8. You might think that an ...
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Hendrik Hertzberg: The marrying kind.
statesman.com - 11/29/2008
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statesman.com —
Austin Web site has 'blacklist' for businesses linked
to money that supported gay marriage ban. Tuesday, November...
25, 2008 By Bob Keefe West Coast bureau SAN DIEGO Gay marriage activists who lost at the ballot box in California are now lashing out at ...
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Prop. 8 backlash reaches to Texas
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The Gay Cowards Parades
AMERICAN DIGEST —
In the strident and petulant protests that erupted after California's Proposition 8 passed I can't be the only one who noticed the broad yellow streak in the crowds. What we've seen in the last couple of weeks is a long, long way from Stonewall. Indeed, if most of the protestors ganging up on the Mormon Church weren't gay, you'd have to call them sissies.
An editorial in The National Review this morning notes, It’s also worth considering that, while ...
Carol Platt Liebau: What's Truly Hateful . . .
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
I've never been a fan of hate crimes legislation. But if the laws are on the books, they should be enforced on behalf of -- and against -- all groups equally. That's the essence of equal protection of the laws. Yet, as this National Review op/ed points out , there has been a dramatic targeting of Mormons in the wake of the passage of California's Proposition 8. So far, there has been little of the denunciation in the press that would be heard loud and clear across the land if, for example, Mormons were treating gays the same way that gays are now treating them . Feminists ...
Malkin Award Nominee
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... "They’ve already burned the Book of Mormon. The First Amendment is next," - the editors of National Review on those fighting for legal equality for gay couples. ...
Come And See The Violence Inherent In The System
Balloon Juice —
Sullivan points to the following gem from the editors at the NRO:
Given their cavalier disregard for the freedom of conscience, it’s little surprise that the gay lobby is equally disdainful of democracy: They began pursuing legal challenges to Proposition 8 practically before they were done tallying the votes. Lamentably, the state attorney general defending the will of the people will be former Jerry Brown, the liberal former governor who was an open opponent of the measure and tried to sabotage it. The legal challenges will be ...
A KULTURKAMPF against Mormons?…
Instapundit —
A KULTURKAMPF against Mormons?
What About Freedom
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] of conscience ? I'm simplifying, but you seem to simplify things, too, Jerry. This is more than you not caring about what your neighbor is doing. This is about your neighbor or some group acting in his name coercing the state into affirming what he's doing, and as marriage . ...
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