Anti-Prop. 8 mob watch: L.A. Film Festival director resigns over donations
This is such a shame. I mentioned the uproar in Hollywood over L.A. Film Festival director Richard Raddon’s contribution to the Yes on Proposition 8 traditional marriage initiative campaign last week (link). Well, the tolerance bullies have won. Raddon has resigned.
Via Variety (hat tip – Steve G.):
Under mounting pressure, LA Film Festival director Richard Raddon has ankled his post.
Raddon and Film Independent (FIND), the festival’s parent org, have faced a barrage of protests over Raddon’s contribution to the successful Yes on Prop 8 campaign that banned same-sex marriage in California.
After bloggers published his name, culled from public records of donors, Raddon tendered his first resignation on Nov. 13 to Film Independent’s board of directors, which was not accepted. Film Independent then released a statement saying, in part, “Our organization does not police the personal, religious, or political choices of any employee, member, or filmmaker.”
Yet Internet message boards and other published reports kept the issue at the center of a growing protest movement that has targeted “Yes on 8″ donors including the Mormon church and Cinemark Theaters, whose CEO was a contributor.
On Monday, Raddon submitted a second resignation. Those close to the org described Monday’s conference call with the board of directors as emotional. While Raddon’s contribution had caused some internal angst, he was well liked within the org.
On Tuesday, Film Independent issued a statement saying “With great reluctance, Film Independent has accepted Richard Raddon’s resignation. Rich’s service to the independent film community and to Film Independent has been nothing less than extraordinary. He has always shown complete commitment to our core principles of equality and diversity during his long tenure.”
Raddon, a devout Mormon who took the reins of the fest in 2000, said, “I have always held the belief that all people, no matter race, religion, or sexual orientation are entitled to equal rights. I prefer to keep the details around my contribution through my church a private matter. But I am profoundly sorry for the negative attention that my actions have drawn to Film Independent and for the hurt and pain that is being experienced in the GLBT community.”
Film Independent has not yet picked a replacement for Raddon.
Who will the witch hunters go after next?
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Not Muslims or black churches.
More nazi tactics exposed. More lives destroyed on the alter of political correctness.
Looks like they’re succeeding in their quest to deny funding to the next controversial ballot initiative.
Hey boilermaker, I double dog a$$ dare those “tolerance bullies” to go after the muslims.
Of course they are cowards and will only go after Christians who will turn the other cheek (face cheek that is).
Indeed
Incredible. If there was a Cinemark-owned theater in my area, I would patronize them out of spite!
Please tell me why this should make me angry. If my civil rights were being infringed, I would boycott the perpetrators and all their enablers too.
It’s not about “tolerance.” It’s equality.
I’ll tell you who, anybody they darn well wish, and its a crime. They better hope they win in the courts because they’ll never win again in the court of public opinion. These slime bags who are so all about tolerance and love are worse than Joe McCarthy ever was.
Why don’t people fight back? Why not sue them for what they are doing?
JUST SAY NO TO HATEFUL HOMOSEXUALS
JUST SAY NO TO SODOMITES
JUST SAY NO TO GAYS AND LESBIANS
JUST SAY NO TO ELEN, ROSIE AND FRIENDS
JUST SAY BACK OFF OR YOU PAY FOR YOUR THREATS AND THE PERSONAL/FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU COST ME.
Red State Skeptic thinks this is justifiable, I do not. Prop 8 did not infringe any body’s civil rights. Gays can still have any legal, contractual relationship equivalent to marriage in California as before. But it is not a right to have your homosexual union called a marriage. Gays and lesbians who want to “marry,” a minority among that population, apparently, are driving this to achieve acceptance and recognition. Sorry, not from me.
And you’re seriously wondering why gays are sick to the teeth of how they are treated by your kind and are threatening boycotts?
Gays are allowed to spend their money how they want. They don’t want to give their money to a spoilt brat bigoted film festival director, so he could turn around and use their own money against them, and so they threatened a boycott. Because the arts are heavily dependent on gays, they won and there’s one less bigot in power in California.
Marriage was a Holy sacrament long before it became a tax deduction or a means to group health care coverage.
If they want those things… they can have civil unions. Leave marriage where it belongs. In houses of worship.
Ah, RedStateIdiot thinks that if you contribute to a cuase and it goes against someones grain, you should lose your job.
I demand all persons who donated funds to Planned Parenthood be fired – STAT!
You want lgm’s “The Idiot” title don’t you?
This is the only situation where someone can be forced to quit their job or be fired.
Apparently the right to a safe and harrassment free work place does not apply when sodomites/homosexuals are the one’s harrassing and threatening.
Again, no ACLU help offered.
Mention gay and Emu shows up with yet another challenge to lgm’s “The Idiot” title.
Name one “right” Prop 8 took away or denied – just one.
Omu, you see any Mormons, Catholics, evangelicals or blacks protesting outside gay businesses? See any gay protesters have the signs knocked out of their hands while they’re shoved around? I’m sick to death of having to kow-tow to the gay and lesbian agenda. I don’t care what you do in the privacy of your own homes, and I don’t care if you have civil unions. But do NOT ask me or my country to give what has been viewed for centuries as a perversion an equal standing with a man and woman who marry and raise a family. I’m just not that tolerant. But then neither are you.
This is McCarthyism reincarnate.
Anyone who is “blacklisting” people should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.
I hope Mr. Raddon decides to make an independent film about the facist tactics being used by the “protesters”. Imagine if the situation were reversed, and gays were being “outed” and forced to resign. Isn’t that discrimination?
Logic from the left…Quite selective.
and we’re sick of the gay movement and their fascist agenda.
thats why we need to boycott every gay business.
Omu, kindly show us where this film director was a bigot…?
I don’t think you understand this at all.
Um, you see, there’s this court in California charged with interpreting the constitution. And, you see, they found that denying the right of marriage to gay people violates the California constitution, and so they granted gays their constitutional rights. Bigots, acting under the thin disguise of God, took away this right. Does this still not make sense?
As well as what “rights” gays are being denied.
Tell us, Omu.
Marriage is a state-sanctioned institution. If a heterosexual couple can get married by a justice of the peace, so should a homosexual couple. Your church does not have to recognize their union (I’m Catholic, and we don’t recognize any other union but ours), but that has nothing to do with the marriage being recognized by the government.
Nope, nothing McCarthy-ite about that. Nothing to see here, move along.
Well, I remain unconvinced that marriage (as opposed to civil unions) is a civil right in the first place. But granting your premise for the sake of argument I’ll tell you why it should make you angry.
Because there is nothing at all principled about what these people are doing. This is nothing more or less than a mob of cowardly bullies picking on people that they know won’t fight back in any meaningful sense of the word.
And for what it’s worth, in the process I think they’re doing their own cause a lot more harm than good. In general I’m socially liberal with a “live and let live” mentality, and these thugs have me feeling sympathy for Mormons. That’s an amazing trick to pull off.
These people aren’t threatening boycotts, they are harassing people, demanding that people lose their lively hoods because of their choice in an election.
If the gay crowd wants to boycott a business, that’s one thing, but to threaten the owners, employees or patrons of that business is unacceptable behavior.
If elections are going to be decided through violence, why have elections? Lets just have a civil war to settle it?
I know, I know don’t feed the troll. But sometimes I have to.
Gay people are accessing PUBLIC (!!) records and making consumer choices based upon them. It is not blacklisting, and it is insulting to people who have been blacklisted to use that term so flippantly.
He donated his own money to fight against the equality of gay people. That’s bigotry right there – hate to break it to you, but it absolutely is. Not supporting gay marriage is fine, but seeking to revoke a right that gays had been enjoying for months is horrible. That’s why Obama and Biden didn’t support Prop 8, even though they don’t support gay marriage.
This country was , and is, a Judeo /Christian based country with Judeo/Christian based laws and moral codes. Being gay is not a right, you who are gay and claim equal status with blacks, and indenture servants wave a false flag. You have any and all rights that any of us have. Marriage is a sacrosanct part of the Faith. It is not yours to parlay, steal or convert to your liking. Get over it.Oh and if the gay, lesbian and whatever perversion of the day person wishes to riot in my neighborhood, or prevent me from working or living my life…. have at it pinkie….. you’ll rue the day.
Omu – Bigot implies hatred or intolerance. How has this person shown you that he HATES or is INTOLERANT of gays?
Last time I checked, the only HATE or INTOLERANCE coming from anyone is from the Gay community against white christians.
I would not find this so strikingly obvious if they were just as heavy handed towards Muslims and Baptists.
Heh, well said.
EMU,
Show us all where marriage is a Constitutional right and I will forego calling you and idiot henceforth.
Gays do not care so much about marriage as they do about tearing down institutions (literally and figuratively). See, idiot, they want to amend the states constitution to protect marriage between a man and a woman. It still does not take away their “right” (really ability) to marry. It set a proper guideline and draws a line that says we make this statement BEFORE others come along and say, “I want to marry my sister, son, daughter… and I have a “right” and you can’t take that away. What was unacceptable before is now deemed acceptable. What is to say that 20 years from now these “people” in Californication want to marry their pets and those freaks have decided it is acceptable. Are you getting this yet IDIOT?
The problem isn’t that it doesn’t make sense, the problem is that you’re wrong.
I’m an athiest (for which I catch my share of heat around here) and I think marriage should be defined as one guy/one gal.
See, any definition of marriage is going to involve drawing a more or less arbitrary line somewhere, and I think that the place established by 5,000 years of tradition is a pretty good place to draw it. As soon as you remove that distinction there is no logical reason to have any distinction at all. Any rationale you can give for allowing homosexuals to marry applies equally well to groups, siblings etc. Since marriage does involve state benefits then allowing anyone to enter into it is a recipe for chaos.
So, one man and one woman, everyone else can enter into contractual civil unions. And god has nothing to do with it.
There is equality. Everyone can “marry” someone of the opposite sex, no one can “marry” someone of the same sex.
Here’s an analogy: Drug use is a lifestyle choice. Some drugs like cigarettes and alcohol are legal, others are illegal. We are all equal in what we are allowed to use. I can complain that the drug I want isn’t legal, but I have no argument in saying it violates my civil rights.
Having your career ruined because you support a political position sounds a little soviet to me.
lgm,
you need to come and fight for your “The Idiot” title. It is about to be given away.
So not supporting gay marriage is NOT bigoted, but donating money with that belief is?
I hate to break it to you, but your logic is faulty. I believe you may be missing a reasoning chip too.
So in order to make you NOT a bigot, you cant donate money. hmmmmmm. Interesting.
Does anyone else see the facism in this argument…just wondering.
first, courts take it upon themselves to interpret the constitution…second I remember a court that said slavery is a ‘civil right’ and ’separate but equal’ is a civil right…what makes those courts wrong, and this one right???
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
Hey Omu, ever read the Dredd Scott decision?
Don’t forget the stupidity.
Everyone but the usual suspects sees it, though.
Soap and James Felix are opposites as far as God is concerned but agree completely (it seems) on this issue. So, to argue it has anything to do with God is pointless.
Good lord, aren’t you guys tired of having the same argument for the 50th time this month?
Leviticus 18:22
“Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable
Leviticus 20:13 – “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
I am pretty sure THIS time we will all figure it out and come to an agreement.
And then we’ll move on to abortion.
Romans 1:26-27 – “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion
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Chap – ROFL
LOL Good point Mookie. What is the old saying?
Never argue with a fool. You have to come down to their level and the beat you with experience.
As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise!”
The Loony Left (redundant, I know) always lives down to expectations.
Chap,
or move on to that win Obama pulled of with his 52%!
I will not be baited…I…will…not…be…baited…
53!!!!!!
Okay. I was baited.
I see it. So you’re allowed to have those beliefs, you’re just not allowed to actually act on them. That’d be like saying gays are allowed to be mad that they cannot marry, but if they do anything about it we’ll make sure we harass them and their employer until they lose their jobs. It does make perfect sense…if you’re a facist.
I’m reminded of “The Lord of the Flies”. A pack of unsupervised children go tribal and hunt down those they don’t like.
When will the adults in the nice crisp uniforms show up to set things right?
(In my best Jeff Foxworthy voice)
If you deny someone from earning a living (right to life, liberty…etc)for using their first amendment rights…”You just might be a Facist…here’s your sign”
I think this will come back to bite the Mormon church in the patootie regarding their tax-exempt status. I hope I’m wrong.
And speaking of “wrong”, hey, Omu, you are so off base with your rantings. Let me give you an opposite example. I had a [now former] friend who said that he wanted to boycott KD Lang because she was gay. I entreated him to reconsider. She has a right to make a living and to have food and clothing and shelter, and to boycott someone because of their sexual orientation was wrong. Taking away her livelihood was wrong, since the manner in which she makes her living does not support the gay agenda, which was the issue to which he objected.
Turning the tables, you and your gay friends are denying this man, by all accounts this KIND man, the right to make a living by boycotting his employer. Yet his work has nothing to do with opposing the gay movement. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
So you cannot reasonably argue that you are trying to destroy this man for his personal and privately-held beliefs. So tell us, Omu: how long would you haunt and hound this man? To his next place of employment? To the one after that? I guess you’d like him to starve, perhaps?
Too bad you’re not as tolerant as you demand of others.
Shame on you, Omu.
Homosexuals slandered Mormons in their campaign advertising. Since their loss they have vandalized Mormon churches, sent death threats, and had burning books of Mormon laid on their front porches.
The “right” to marriage was decided by a court that overrode the original will of the people as decided by a referendum of the population. The existence of a “right” based on judicial fiat does not mean that once decided it should be sheltered into permanence.
You, by opposing Prop 8, are part and parcel to religious bigotry.
Go away, filthy bigot.
Well Um, the constitution has been amended.
Omu the Bigot is back!
Omu, have you stopped denying your bigotry yet?
Not a chance. They did nothing wrong under tax exempt law.
Omu got scared and went away. Guess he’s a weenie.
Hi, chappy. Can a church make a donation to a political cause and not risk its tax-exempt status?
Yankees Suck. Discussion over.
I was wondering about what he said when he said “through” his church. I was under the impression that Mormons were asked to donate directly and their donations didn’t go through the church at all. I’d be surprised if that was the case.
True that.
You forgot the rest.
Its a little more complicated than what I am saying, but bottom line is that so long as a church does not advocate for a specific CANDIDATE, they are free to advocate on a specific ISSUE.
I still think that they would have to fall under the “substantial activities” or the 501(h) election test, which limits how much a church can do somewhat, but believe me, the Mormon church is not anywhere near in danger of pushing up against those.
Thank goodness these birth defects can’t procreate.
(I’m referring only to the violent, emotionally mangled loons, of course.)
So much for using the ballot to make change.
Let’s deport these L’il Darlin’s to Iran, where President AhMan AmIaWackJob declares that “there are no homosexuals”, and the government acts, ah-hem, “accordingly”.
If nothing else, they’d soon develop an increased appreciation for the nation they so deeply hate now.
I did not have time to read every post, forgive me if this has been covered.
So the Kalifornia Supreme Court creates a “right” for gays to marry – out of whole cloth. Gays have this made up “right” for, what, 8 months – when the voters decide the Supreme Court was wrong, and amend the constitution – legally, as prescribed by the state constitution. And because of this, the voters are bigots.
Got it.
OMU: So its okay to destroy people because they act on thier beliefs. Its okay to threaten thier jobs, get them fired, force them to pay what equates to protection money, simply because they believe differently? They used to do that in NAZI GERMANY.
Just wondering, what’s the difference between boycotting this guy for exercising free speech and boycotting the Dixie Chicks?
So in OMU’s world, the people have no right to have thier say. At all. Everyone must comply with OMU’s views. That used to be called a dicatorship.
The dixie chicks are still employed.
Not any more than McCain voters were “part and parcel” to racial bigotry because a few of his supporters made Obama/Curious George shirts and hanged him in effigy.
FighterDC #17
Please don’t drag Senator McCarthy’s name into this. McCarthy did nothing wrong. The crime was done to McCarthy.
– Miscegenation opponents 40 years ago.
RSS – I am not impressed by your attempt to link 2 totaly seperate issues.
It was ok when liberals did it to bush for 8 years, but bigotry when the conservatives did it once.
Typical liberal logic.
Will this be your next fight, RSS?
Why would the changes to marriage stop at gay marriage? All those other types have the same arguments attached.
<blockquoteJust wondering, what’s the difference between boycotting this guy for exercising free speech and boycotting the Dixie Chicks?
The dixie chicks are still employed.
Not if the right had anything to say about it five years ago. They were kicked off the radio, they had a ton of engagements cancelled, and they will never again be played on country radio. That’s fine. If you don’t want to hear them, and a lot of other people feel the same way, then boycott away.
Mel Gibson will never act in another major motion picture because he doesn’t like Jews. Why should I put up with someone who doesn’t actively opposes gay rights?
Will this be your next fight, RSS?
On November 25th, 2008 at 5:54 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
There is equality. Everyone can “marry” someone
of the opposite sex same race, no one can “marry”someone of the same sex opposite racemore than one.Will this be your next fight, RSS?
Oh please.The dixie chicks still have jobs, this guy was hounded into unemployment. Liberal “tolerance” of other views.
Nice try. The age of consent exists because there is an aggrieved party involved. There is not in a consensual homosexual relationship.
RSS, will you oppose any of the three examples I provided? Are you that bigoted?
. Who are you to deny the love between a 48 year old father and his 12 year old daughter!!!!
BIGOT!!!!!
Please. Who’s the aggrieved party if the marriage is consensual????
its been asked of the trolls to name 1 right that has been taken from Prop 8, well I can name at least 3 of my rights that have been taken away by the gaynazis!
1 Freedom of religious expression
2. Freedom of speech and
3. Freedom of association.
Its truly a sad day that I fought for freedom (even for the gaynazis), that I cannot even have the same rights that they get.
May G-d have mercy on his children.
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
No dice. Again, we have bigamy laws to protect women from being taken advantage of.
Who are you to deny thier love for thier shared husband? Thier love is just as real as yours!!!
BIGOT!!!
I’m at a loss for words.
Are you serious? I assume that you oppose pedophilia — is it because you wish to protect children, or just because you it’s aberrant?
I am kinda with OMU on this one. The gays are doing exactly what McCarthy did.
And California has a shiny new amendment to it’s master law. Your reply merely hurts your argument.
So does this mean you support polyandry?
Everybody has the same right to marry a single person of the opposite sex. There is no “violation of civil rights”. I, just like homosexuals, have no right to marry someone of the same sex.
Explain to me how homosexuals are singled out in this case.
So you condone their mob-like extortion? Do you condone their attempts to suppress a person’s Freedom of Speech by publishing their names so less stable moonbat can intimidate and assault them and their families?
They lost the popular vote. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
The age of consent is actualy a very recent thing. Girls used to get married right after they started menstration. We are changing the bases for marriage here so why stop just because you feel uncomfortable? Thats part of the argument against gay marriage.
The right to marry whomever you choose without harming him or her (save your breath regarding polygamy/pedophilia)
Ridiculous. None of those rights has been taken away. People have a freedom NOT to associate with those whose of speech, expression and association they disapprove, and that’s all that has happened here.