Homosexuals Respond to a Democratic Vote

Major U. S. cities with large black populations were warned well in advance of the presidential election that riots could well ensue if Obama lost the election. Cities geared up in preparation to stop the burning and looting. But there was no rioting, burning or looting. Could that be because the civilized party lost?

But the Left didn’t win everything. In California Prop 8 was voted in, banning same sex marriage. Homosexuals responded by demonstrating, with a certain amount of collateral violence, and arrests. No permits or routing was obtained and traffic was badly snarled.

Mormons were blamed for "buying" the vote; Obama's quarter billion $ in undocumented cash didn't seem to bother the protesters, who couldn't believe they had lost in a year which Obama had won. The LDS church didn't donate, it encouraged members to donate. Homosexual advocates are trying to identify donors, the purpose for this is unstated.

Hate ads were placed on TV, showing Mormon evangelists performing a home invasion on two lesbians, ransacking the place and destroying their marriage document.

But a large area of support for the ban came from minority communities, Latino and black, who do not support homosexual marriage. This produced racial epithets directed at blacks by some crowds.

The Mormon tabernacle was surrounded by crowds shouting, “Mormon scum!”

Rick Warren’s church was surrounded by crowds shouting, “Purpose Driven Hate!”

Churches were vandalized and spray painted.

According to the Herald,

Dale Carpenter, a University of Minnesota law professor who opposed Proposition 8, said singling out the LDS church is wrong. He called it "selective indignation," and said some Latter-day Saints publicly opposed the measure and others backed it for deeply held beliefs, not bigotry.

"It's especially inappropriate to target the physical buildings -- the places of worship themselves -- because that invites the kind of religious intolerance we have suffered too much of in the history of this country," Carpenter said.

Plainly the will of the people in a democratic vote means nothing to those on the Left. They appear to think that bullying is the way to get what they want, no matter what the majority thinks. At least they didn’t set entire cities on fire. Not yet anyway.

But the homosexual activists aren't through yet. They are planning a boycott of tourism in Utah, challenges of the LDS tax exemptions, and more demonstrations. The Mormons are being singled out because they are not mainstream and seem vulnerable:

"Some LDS scholars believe more is at work than anger against Latter-day Saints flexing financial and organizational muscle. Armand Mauss, a retired Washington State University sociologist, said the campaign laid bare a "latent anti-Mormon undercurrent."

Anti-Mormon rhetoric is politically safe because Latter-day Saints remain a relatively small minority and "have never been completely assimilated as 'normal Americans' to completely live down the image of 'weirdness' inherited from the 19th century,"

What homosexuals seem to forget is that religion is generally included (albeit gratuitously) in Hate Crime designations. It will be interesting to see what happens when one protected group attacks another protected group.