Posted on 01/25/2010 3:28:16 PM PST by American Dream 246
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:
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEatd5PF08c&feature=player_embedded
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.”
I miss the days when it was, “the love that dare not speak its name”. Now it’s the perversion that can’t shut its mouth.
If anyone’s being silenced it’s the majority of Californians who’ve time after time after time, voted against gay marriage. The nuts and fruits living in the land of fruit and nuts can’t handle they don’t get to play marriage. Even if the definition changes it will never “be” marriage. They will always be a pale shadow of an imitation of a real marriage. Because the pervert lifestyle, whatever it is, doesn’t lend itself to fidelity and monogamy, and this is what marriage is about. It’s why so few homosexuals “get married”, air quotes intentional. It’s why the only thing that they want it for are legal and tax benefits. Which they can get most of anyway through current contract law, powers of attorney, healthcare powers of attorney, leaving property to others in wills, etc.
Marriage is between a man and a woman. Hopefully they’re smart and made a wise choice so it is able to last a lifetime.
Sorry, Cindy & Meghan. You don’t get to torch your own bonfires. Martyrdom can’t be self-declared. It has to be conferred.
I like the duct tape look. They should leave it in place.
Tell me about it. Cindy’s airbrush must’ve been liquid-cooled.
Should the pro-lifers be quiet because the majority of Californians voted against parental notification THREE TIMES.
I would like to see a waiting period of 4 years before a defeated issue gets back on the ballot, so people can improve on getting support for the issue they are advocating for such as parental notification for abortion or expanding marriage to non-straight people.
Or should of we still allowed housing discrimination because people voted for it in 1964? We silenced the majority of voters who approved Proposition 14?
Why can’t JD use this against the McCainiac in the primary?
and in meghan’s case, maybe duct taping her fingers together would make an even more FORCEFUL statement, LOL!
No, the pro-lifers shouldn’t be silenced, and the gay marriage people can put up an initiative any time they want.
I just don’t think they should be allowed to harass supporters and donors.
Airbrushed or not, Meghan McCain is smoking in that pic. I’ll “reach across the aisle” all right...
You’ll have to fight off Rabs for Petunia’s hand.
Yah,but like with all "moderates" you just don't know where she's been.
I do believe in transparency, but maybe have a four month delay on donation disclosure to help cool tempers down. The only thing that should be mentioned is city and dollar amount. I wish we could be focusing on better things like fixing the California economy and bringing back business in to create opportunity for all. Anyways, I wish we could figure out a mutual agreed upon idea that would not cause a Roe v. Wade type outcry, but that would not likely happen.
Both sides did harass each sides donors and supporters, but I think the 4 month delay would cool off tempers.
Don't tell the Mccain's that hispanics and blacks were opposed and voted against prop.8.
Like RHINO husband like RHINO wife and daughter. John Mccain is judged by the company he keeps.
ROFL
Meghan Mccain is so stupid if she is in favor of amnesty and Gay rights at the same time, she contradicts herself without even knowing it.
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