Anti-Gay Marriage Initiative Funders Being Unfairly Forced to Accept Responsibility for Their Actions
POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

When will the cruel persecution of people who persecute homosexuals come to an end?

Look, these people just want to live their lives the way they prefer -- making sure that a small minority of the population is denied the right to live their lives the way they prefer -- in quiet, anonymous isolation from consequence. Why can't we just leave these people alone, so that they can get back to interfering with our personal freedoms in peace...
A federal judge Thursday denied a request by Proposition 8 supporters to withhold disclosure of late campaign donors to California's same-sex marriage ban, saying the public has a right to know.
Claiming donors have been harassed, attorneys for Proposition 8 had sought a preliminary injunction to keep secret the identities of 1,600 donors who made contributions just before or after voters approved the measure on Nov. 4.
They asserted that First Amendment rights to be free from retaliation outweigh the state's interest in disclosure.
The judge, unfortunately, disagreed, stating that "the state is not facilitating retaliation by compelling disclosure."
Well, maybe not. But it's certainly not facilitating a bunch of covert gay-bashing, either. And isn't that really what the state is supposed to be doing? (I mean, secretly. Like, on the DL.)
Here's the problem with this: If people aren't allowed to anonymously shovel money into campaigns against minority groups, then shoveling money into campaigns against minority groups suddenly gets less fun. Because then you might have to take responsibility for your actions and convictions, and nobody wants to do that if your actions and convictions are mean-spirited and petty.
So, what happens is you get less people funding these hate campaigns against minorities, and then you get less people hating minorities. And then, eventually, people start to think about minorities as if they were actual people who live actual lives full of actual emotions and relationships. And that's when things start getting totally out of control.
I mean, look what happened with the blacks.

Mean but funny

A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!"

The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am a Mexican."

The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America ."

The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese."

The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful America !"

That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Middle East. I am not American."

He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you an American?"

She says, "No, I am from Africa ."

Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Americans?"

The African lady checks her watch and says, "Probably at work."

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I thought I might shoot for some sort of an update. I made a post the other day on my LJ that was sort of me venting in a way about a person who has been annoying me for a long time, I've decided I think he is a bigot but if I called him on that I'd be burned at the stake. He helps run a podcast I used to really enjoy but I have since decided him and his partner don't really have the community in mind so much as them self’s and along with that are very judgmental and are well, bigots more so toward religion really badly with the LDS church. I guess some gays feel the need to hate religion because some religious people hate them? I thought hate didn't stop hate? Last I checked you responded with love but what do I know? I've only been a lesbian Mormon for years now.

Anywho, life seems pretty non stop these days. Work, home (game on Tuesdays and everyother Thursday and last Friday of the month which started this month before it was every Tuesday and Thursday and last Friday of the month.) sleep do it all over again. Somewhere in there I play Wii Animal Crossing. Weekends are more gaming and sometimes baby sitting. The demon sometimes drives me crazy and I want to shoot him out of a cannon or something. I think I need a weekend either out and doing something I don't do much or a weekend in with nothing to do what so ever. Not. bloody. likely. However I do have Mythic Realms this weekend, maybe that will go well? I don't have working weapons and the guy who is supposed to make them for me has been out of contact. yay.

On another note I found out the other day a friend (friend? maybe) of mine tested positive for HIV. Well he is gay, so I am not to surprised. And I feel bad as the gay tends to think in dooms day terms as it is. Than I thought about it a bit more, I've never actually personally known anyone who has HIV, I've decided it's a little weird. I mean I know I can't get anything from him like coughing on me anything like that but it still freaks me out a little. I'm sure I will get over it but still....