Andrew Sullivan suggests that gays should go hard-negative on their opponents in marriage campaigns. He cites this passage from a Rex Wockner post as creditable:
We are fools to have spent all this money and time and not have defined the opponents. It's not enough to answer their charges. We need to hit them back and not let up on it until voters don't buy their lies anymore. Malpractice in my opinion.
Sullivan adds:
A campaign that in future took on the Catholic hierarchy for its tolerance of child abuse while denying grown people marriage rights would be a promising start. Ads reminding people of the Mormon church's long, long history of racism would also be salient. We're new to this, and we're learning.
Dropping the "Bigot" Bunker-Buster doesn't seem like a promising strategy to me in a country in which 49 percent of the people think homosexuality is immoral, and in which a Mr. Nice Gay approach is slowly but steadily winning. But we'll see. If that's the way they go, the anti-SSM groups ought to make ads out of this footage of the way an enraged mob of No More Mr. Nice Gays chased peaceful Christians out of the Castro district; the Christians had to be accompanied by police officers for their own safety:
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dggdydg:
All that needs to be said about Fred Phelps can be found at the excellent web site,
http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/
Really, its all right there in Leviticus. So let your long-suffering turning of the other check end, and LAUGH at the poor bufoon! As either Martin Luther or Thomas More said "the devil, that proud spirit, cannot bear to be mocked." Goons like this THRIVE on righteous outrage, like Antaeus hitting the earth.
"Can you imagine what would happen if a bunch of queers turned up in the Vatican City and started shouting obnoxiously anti-Catholic statements? Can you imagine what would be the reaction if a bunch of gay men dressed as cowboys started deliberately antagonizing a bunch of actual cowboys? The former would probably be forcibly removed, and the latter would be lucky to SURVIVE the encounter. By comparison, those bigots in the Castro that night got off pretty easy."
I can imagine what would happen if they did something similar in Jerusalem, and they got away with it completely. So spare me.
Rod,
What do you think the all time score is of the following:
Christian mobs chasing peaceful gays
vs
Gay mobs chasing peaceful Christians?
And while we're at it, how about:
Christian mobs chasing peaceful gays, and subsequently torturing and/or killing the gays
vs
Gay mobs chasing peaceful Christians, and subsequently torturing and/or killing the Christians
I'd be interested to hear your estimate.
"I can imagine what would happen if they did something similar in Jerusalem"
I didn't ask what would happen if a bunch of gays acted openly gay in a world-class metropolis (cities typically being islands of tolerance for gays throughout the world).
I asked what would happen if a bunch of flaming queers started harassing a bunch of rednecks or cowboys, or what would happen if a coterie of gay activists stated holding an obnoxious and gaudy protest in the Vatican City.
But of course, feel free to change my question when its answer would not appeal to you.
"Rod,
What do you think the all time score is of the following:
Christian mobs chasing peaceful gays
vs
Gay mobs chasing peaceful Christians?
And while we're at it, how about:
Christian mobs chasing peaceful gays, and subsequently torturing and/or killing the gays
vs
Gay mobs chasing peaceful Christians, and subsequently torturing and/or killing the Christians
I'd be interested to hear your estimate."
Oh Steve, come now. Perspective and context completely blow away Rod's narrative about mean, nasty gay people just hate good, wholesome Christians, just, JUST BECAUSE. That's not very nice of you.
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