How the gay rights movement lost more than Proposition 8.
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5990.
A manager at a Los Angeles Mexican restaurant was targeted for her $100 contribution in support of traditional marriage. Protesters hounded her out of her job, and did the same to a Sacramento theater director and the director of the Los Angeles Film Festival. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6006 were vandalized. The mainstream media ran an all-out public relations campaign in support of same-sex marriage. Hollywood quickly put together “Prop. 8: The Musical,” an Internet video that mocked Jesus, the Bible, and Christians.
“Want to cause a nice long backlash to gay rights? That’s the way to do it,” said lesbian social critic Camille Paglia.
Obnoxious mobs that won’t tolerate any disagreement don’t usually win supporters. Or, as the usually insufferable Objectivist Ayn Rand said, “Argument from intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.” Of course, if the media are to be believed, same-sex marriage is a done deal. “Same-sex marriage is inevitable. It just takes time,” a Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist wrote.The conventional wisdom is that traditional marriage is a demographically lost cause. Younger voters are more likely to support same-sex marriage than older voters, we’re repeatedly reminded. Indeed, 61 percent of voters over 65 supported Prop. 8, while 61 percent of people under 30 voted against it.
But if history and demographics are on the side of same-sex marriage, one wonders why journalists, Hollywood executives, and gay activists didn’t just sit tight and wait. Why voluntarily sabotage their cause with a coordinated campaign of violent and hateful reactions to recent public votes on the matter?
Despite the story pushed by the mainstream media, the only statistics that really matter are at the ballot box. And marriage supporters have been victorious in each of the 33 states that have put the issue up for vote. The only significant success the same-sex marriage crowd has had has been achieved by judicial fiat. In California, a never-before-assembled coalition of evangelicals, Catholics, and Mormons raised $40 million and generated hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
“In spite of repeated efforts by gay activists and mainstream media types to portray this as an issue nobody but the gay-rights people really care about, the Prop. 8 victory itself demonstrates the marriage issue is drawing new attention,” said Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage.
And just because younger voters support same-sex marriage now doesn’t mean their attitudes won’t change. As people age, they tend to get married, have children, and worship more regularly—all of which weigh heavily in voting decisions.
The violent mobs and sneering media confirm one of the arguments made by traditional marriage proponents: Same-sex marriage and religious freedom are on a collision course.
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