Dear Cindy & Meghan: Let’s talk about who’s really being silenced over Prop. 8
Hollywood and political celebrities are such lemmings. AIDS ribbons. Foreign baby adoptions. Livestrong bracelets. Now, every fame-seeker and left-wing panderer wants his/her mouth duct-taped to show solidarity with the gay marriage movement.
The latest slave to fashion? Cindy McCain, following in the oh-so-edgy-for-Tinseltown footsteps of her daughter, MEghan:
Who’s silencing these Prop. 8 opponents? They’re more overexposed than Mariah Carey’s bosom. They can talk and talk and talk without fear of retribution, intimidation, or physical violence:
Meanwhile, Prop. 8 supporters and donors have been hounded, threatened, blacklisted, beaten, and forced to resign from their jobs for exercising their political free speech.
On Friday, a liberal San Francisco Chronicle columnist decried the latest thug tactics against a 96-year-old Mormon community activist who is now the target of an anti-Prop. 8 witch hunt:
I certainly understand the anger fomented by one individual’s generous contribution to the clearly mean-spirited campaign of Proposition 8. But, I’m not so sure I agree with the message being sent by gay and lesbian activists in the case of 96-year-old Lorenzo Hoopes.
The civic-minded Oakland citizen – with more than 50 years’ experience in public service – is currently the target of gay-rights activists who say his $26,000 contribution in support of the 2008 ballot initiative that reversed the state’s same-sex marriage law makes him unfit to hold public office.
And to make their point, critics have launched a campaign to block his reappointment to the board of directors of the Paramount Theatre, a city-owned landmark in downtown Oakland.
On its face, the campaign to remove Hoopes from an inconsequential seat on an inconsequential public board appears to be as mean-spirited as the same-sex marriage ban itself. Hoopes, who is Mormon, wasn’t on anyone’s radar screen until after the ballot initiative won voter approval in November 2008.
Since then, his reappointment has become such a hot-button issue that Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums withdrew Hoopes’ nomination from the Oakland City Council’s agenda package this week. A Dellums’ spokesman said the mayor wanted more time to consider the reappointment. Given his support for same-sex marriage, Dellums will likely withdraw the Hoopes nomination, said one mayoral aide. As mayor, Dellums has appointment power to all city boards and commissions.
Hoopes’ opponents believe that anyone who played a role as significant as he did on the ballot initiative should not be allowed to serve in any public capacity. His contribution was the largest by any Oakland resident.
But it’s even more than that: They want Hoopes to feel the same public humiliation felt by the gay community as the result of a vicious series of televised campaign ads paid for by people like him.
…The nation’s changing culture is proof positive that Hoopes’ standard of marriage is no longer the only valid viewpoint of society’s ultimate union, but in a democracy based on individual religious and political freedoms, seeking to exclude – or completely ban – others for not sharing your politics is just as wrong.
Cindy and MEghan McCain’s silence on the continued thuggery of their anti-Prop. 8 duct-tape wielders speaks volumes.
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Ann Althouse: “I get that she supports same-sex marriage, but what does that have to do with anybody forcibly silencing her? If you have something to say, lady, just say it and quit blaming others.”
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uh ‘hate crimes’ are thought crimes. you are trying to judge what is in a peron’s heart not his actions.
well why are you here then? she shows far more respect for them than the gays do for anyone who dares disagree with their fascist agenda.
why? when its so easy to make you look stupid!
The gay movement are fascists that are trying to eliminate any thought word or deed that they disagree with.
I think thats monstrous, don’t you?
as we’ve seen with a doctor in CA who was sued because he refused to inseminate a lesbian, no freedom of religion, or action, for him!!
same with a photographer in AZ!! no freedom for any who dare disagree with the gays!
oh and what about Jesse Dirkhising…was that a hate crime? why not?
People disagree with me pretty often, but they’re still permitted to roam free. I don’t understand what my dues are paying for anymore. Half a mind to cancel my subscription and give Meghan McCain a call…
really now? so why was that doctor in CA sued?
Sorry, it’s 7:05PM PST. That means I’m no longer being paid to read MichelleMalkin.com
don’t worry, I knew you couldn’t answer the question….
If people are denying their services to gay people … just because they’re gay, then that’s discrimination on an unacceptable ground. Just like it’s unacceptable for racists to deny medical treatment to black people and just like it’s unacceptable for Muslim men to refuse to operate on women, so too it is illegal to refuse to provide a service to someone based on their sexual orientation. You actually have a problem with that? You think it should be ok for anyone to refuse medical treatment, other services to people on immutable grounds like race and gender and sexual orientation?
LOL!! Dumbass, you can’t compare gays with ethnicity. Gay isn’t a race, it’s a choice, a perverted deviant unnatural choice. Like child molesters; wouldn’t you refuse to allow a child molester near children? That’s not discrimination, that’s common sense, just like you don’t give gays extra rights and protections because they are making perverted choices.
I live in AZ, and the McCains are making a fargone mockery of their representation right minded conservatives. I hope JD Hayworth destroys John in the Election.
Time for a little reality check.
Looking for a case study of homosexuals who have been been hounded, threatened, and blacklisted for exercising their political free speech?
Here you go…
So,
Cindy and MEghan,
Will you take your message of
to the appropriate audience?
The true H8TRS are Obama supporters!
How do you know that was the reason? Unless the attacker confesses his motive, you’d have to read his thoughts to know for sure.
If someone hates everyone equally and decides one day to go out and viciously attack the first person who crosses his path, he will be punished differently depending on who his victim happens to be. If the person he attacks happens to be gay, there will be a lot of pressure to charge the attacker with a hate crime. His punishment will then be greater than if his victim happens to be a straight, white male.
In either case it is a hate crime because the attacker hates everyone equally. But it would not be treated as a hate crime in all cases. That’s why hate crimes should be determined by the violent nature of the crime and not by the status of the victim. Wouldn’t that cover all the bases? (Unless, of course, you want to create special classes rather than have equal treatment under the law.)
Anything the liberal progressives accuse of the Conservative is something they are practicing. They are even forcing their religion, atheism, on the rest of us. And it better be THEIR brand of atheism; or, we’re still upbraided for political incorrect thought processes.
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Great job promoting John McCain’ re-election efforts, girls!
Imagine if a 100% safe and effective vaccine was available to expectant mothers? We wouldn’t be having this discussion; they’d all take it. Normal parents want grandchildren.
“We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” Look it up. Classic example was the wedding photographer who declined a job from a lesbian couple. She didn’t ridicule them or threaten them; she simply said that she would not accept their business because of her beliefs.
The rational response would have been that the couple would have found a photographer willing to work with them. Instead, the photographer was dragged before a “human rights commission” and fined. That is what we call “Special Treatment” and it’s repugnant no matter what.
And yet Muslims in this country have refused to transport people in their cabs who had seeing eye dogs (A violation of federal law) and nothing was done about it.
As for the medical services remark, that’s a strawman argument. No one here would accept a physician refusing to treat someone based on being gay/black/Martian/whatever.
Again “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” Don’t like it, don’t shop there.
And yes, it is OK. The business can conduct business how they see fit. But they take the risk of going out of business. Such is the nature of the free market.
Vicious? Really? What LIES!!!
Those ads simply took Jerry Brown to task for lying. The bills proposed by him, he stated did not include language that would require homosexual studies to be taught in schools (like specifically elementary schools). He lied through his teeth, the ads showed that his intention was that gay studies would be required in schools to young people, it is sad when telling the truth becomes “vicious” because you want people to believe lies (and love the lies). Again, gay marriage is not about individual civil rights, it is about enforced group rights and stifling of freedom of speech. Gay groups want to tell you how to raise your children and they are doing it through this “marriage equality” bull. It is unacceptable.
Again, Omu is missing the central point – people in favor of gay marriage were not forcibly silenced or punished in any way – THEY WERE OUTVOTED.
I did not vote for Obama, but I have no urge to pose for a photo with duct tape over my mouth; I was not silenced, my candidate just didn’t win. It happens in a free country where we can all vote.
You’re conflating “beliefs” and the actual intrinsic nature of someone. You may believe in the free market and you may oppose the government providing healthcare for all and these are opinions and convictions. However, being gay is not just an “opinion” that the same sex as yourself is more attractive, it’s not just a “belief” that drives gays to seek love with other people. It’s their nature and you are being completely unreasonable when you do not recognise that difference.
Conservatives really have a victim complex; Everyone (Hollywood, television, music, popular culture in general, etc.) is out to get you, blah, blah. Well, why don’t you put yourselves in the shoes of a gay person for just a few moments and imagine what it feels like to have your right to marriage denied by a public vote. How do you think that feels?
Let me try to clarify this one more time:
Posing with duckt tape over your mouth as a “protest symbol” indicates that you believe you are somehow a victim of fascism; that you are being forcibly silenced and/or punished for your views.
What these people are really “protesting” is that people who opposed them actually had the right to vote.
I have one question for you, Omu; do you advocate that gay marriage opponents should be harrassed, intimidated, forced out of their jobs, etc.? Is fascism for the “right cause” okay with you?
And before you ask, no, I am not in favor of anti-gay violence or discrimination, up to and including the same legal rights that heterosexual marriage entails.
you have the same rights that anyone else does, marry someone of the opposite sex.
we don’t allow polygamous marriage, or the marriage of pedophiles to their victims either.
but with the ‘logic’ of gay marriage, why should either of those ‘marriages’ be denied?
There is no proof of this! They are not born GAY, they choose to deviate from the norm, they CHOOSE to behave in a perverted manner. They are not being discriminated against because they are NOT born with deviant tendancies. If they are treated bad because of their stupid choices, that is their own fault, just like you would shun or punish a child molester for his/her choices.
There is no such ‘right’ in the Bill of Rights.
She should hold a Rhino instead of an elephant. Free speech is fine, but that’s just bad symbolism.
Oh, and BTW, if the McCain camp wants to keep being the useful idiot mouthpieces for left-wing, civilization-ending causes, more power to them, I guess.
Yeah, I did paraphrase Laura Ingrahm a bit.