11/05/2008
'Yes on 8' Bigots Celebrate Destroying Thousands of Marriages
Check out these "Yes on 8" supporters in Irvine, California whoopin' it up after it was announced last night that Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state, would likely pass. A similar photos was featured in the L.A. Times.
Below, a photo from the same gathering. They apparently prayed after the announcement.
Prayed for what I wonder? That sometime down the road her husband won't be nabbed in a sex sting at a public men's room?
The Christian Coalition today thanked its fellow bigots in California: "The American people are proud of their fellow citizens in the states of California, Florida and Arizona for upholding traditional marriage between one man and one woman. Christian Coalition of America will continue to fight to ensure that government serves to strengthen and preserve, rather than threaten, our families and our values."
Posted 2:57 PM EST by Andy Towle in California, Gay Marriage, News | Permalink
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Righteousness not bigotry prevails !!!
Love one another the way God intended ; )
Posted by: Joe | Nov 5, 2008 3:02:23 PM
Seriously, that is just disturbing. Yeah, lets celebrate hate and then pray about it. What a bunch of morons.
Posted by: JR | Nov 5, 2008 3:03:01 PM
what a crazy thing to be excited about. "yay! discrimination!"
Posted by: david | Nov 5, 2008 3:04:26 PM
Isn't it ironic that the great turnout of Afican-American voters in California was the cause of the passage of this injustice. Exit polls showed that a majority of white voters rejected Prop 8 but 70% of African-Americans voted yes. Barak needs to show some leadership on this to help African-Americans see that civil rights for some is not the American way.
Posted by: charley | Nov 5, 2008 3:07:01 PM
That is so sick to see.
It was just last night I was thinking how amazing it was to now have a black Prez and maybe just maybe one day a gay Prez.
I don't feel that way anymore tho..i don't know what these people are so scared of
Posted by: daveynyc | Nov 5, 2008 3:08:15 PM
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Posted by: B | Nov 5, 2008 3:09:22 PM
I just talked to my neighbor, the old lady in the apartment downstairs: "I voted yesterday... I voted yes so you could keep the right to get married." sigh...
And while it's nice that law suits are being filed, that is NOT ENOUGH... I don't want to be just "tolerated" anymore. Relying on the courts and a handful of others to do something is just NOT enough.
All anger is based in fear. Let's not be afraid anymore!
We have four years to get a grass roots movement going to appeal Prop 8 in 2012. All gays and lesbians should not only be asking "Where is the petition and where do I sign?" But: "What can I do?" We have four years to make sure all our gay brothers and sisters are registered to vote - and vote we must! We have four years to educate against ignorance. We have four years to chip away at decades of bias and hate. At the same time, we have four years to start putting laws into place to start the groundwork for churches to start paying taxes if they get involved with politics... like the LDS demanding their members to donate against Prop 8... it is up to US, the gay community, to rally and start TODAY, and to start NOW... and start we MUST!
If not, you might as well get used to the religious right getting away with call us all their bitches!
Posted by: Arthur | Nov 5, 2008 3:09:36 PM
So is it true that there are a couple million early votin/mail-in ballots yet to be counted in CA?
Posted by: Scott | Nov 5, 2008 3:12:29 PM
CORRECTION:... like the LDS demanding their members to donate against GAYS AND FOR Prop 8. (sorry, thinking faster than what I type)
Posted by: Arthur | Nov 5, 2008 3:13:55 PM
The top picture of the guys cheering is great. These guys are straight? They all look gay. Where are their wives?
Posted by: Joshua | Nov 5, 2008 3:16:26 PM
I don't want to see this shit.
But let them celebrate. Let them pray to cling to the past as tightly as they can because the future says nothing but good things for us.
I still believe its a matter of time. This is not the last word, these people will not be victorious. Look around the world, not just the US. We will win this in the end.
Posted by: Wes | Nov 5, 2008 3:22:41 PM
Love the comment above the last picture--LMAO!
Posted by: troschne | Nov 5, 2008 3:23:49 PM
*************SPECIAL BULLETIN*************
Proposition 8 Protest Rally & Street Closures
Wednesday, November 5th
As deeply disappointed as we all are that California voters passed Proposition 8, we must not allow that disappointment to linger. This vote is a temporary defeat in the long march toward equal rights for all citizens in America.
Please join me for a protest rally tonight at 7 pm on San Vicente Blvd between West Hollywood Park and the Pacific Design Center (647 N. San Vicente Blvd. West Hollywood CA 90069) as we move forward towards restoring equality for all in California.
San Vicente Blvd, between Santa Monica Blvd and Melrose Avenue will be closed tonight starting at 6 pm. San Vicente south-bound traffic will be directed to make left or right at Santa Monica Blvd. Signs have already been posted to help divert traffic.
Posted by: Rockcandy | Nov 5, 2008 3:28:33 PM
Does this mean that since there is no more separation of church and state that the churches will start paying their fair share of taxes?
Posted by: JKM | Nov 5, 2008 3:33:29 PM
This is so infuriating. I didn't need more reasons to hate organized religion, but these assholes leave me no choice.
Not only is it appalling that equality is denied and rights are taken AWAY from part of the population, but it is just RETARDED that religious views are forced upon us. I am BEYOND tired of hearing these motherfuckers blabbering about what God wants and what God demands. All I can say to them is: FUCK YOU.
At first I was sad, but now I'm furious! I can't believe on the same day we choose Obama as president, these shit-for-brains religious fanatics get away with this kind of disgusting shit.
And yes, nobody wants to blame a group for the results (the responsibility, after all, falls on all the people who could have voted in California), but it seems the vast majority of black voters voted YES on hatred and discrimination. I can not for the life of me understand this. One would think the groups who are discriminated against the most would be the first ones to understand the whole issue, but apparently not so much.
It truly shows there is A LOT more to be done still.
Posted by: Jason | Nov 5, 2008 3:35:16 PM
Show me this shit in a week. Not today. It's just too painful.
Posted by: JohnInManhattan | Nov 5, 2008 3:35:42 PM
So let me get this right. California is FOR teens getting abortions without parents knowledge & chickens & cows being able to stretch their legs out, BUT they're against equality.
Posted by: SD619GUY | Nov 5, 2008 3:36:22 PM
Funny, with all the noise some are making here about the 70% black vote for "Yes", the only black faces (total of 2) in these pics are from the "No" camp.
Posted by: Mark in NYC | Nov 5, 2008 3:42:24 PM
Wes: Right on! I couldn't have said it better!
Posted by: ML | Nov 5, 2008 3:44:07 PM
Make no mistake: the real responsibility for the apparent victory of religious fascism with Prop 8 and its ugly sisters in other states rests at the feet of the "leaders" of the gay movement.
While I am one of those who believe that most members of oppressed minorities should be AUTOMATICALLY more sensitive to the oppression of other groups, blaming the blacks who voted for 8 for its passage, when they make up only 6% of the CA population is selective perception. In hard numbers, more whites, Latinos, and Asians voted against us.
And ALL of them can do that and STILL claim, as their leaders are, that it's "not about discrimination" because of the decades of failure of OUR leaders. They don't know any better because WE have not taught them while they have had their ignorance and bigotry actively reinforced by decades of direct action by OUR ENEMIES.
Other minorities have advanced by legislation and court decision [do you think discrimination against blacks, Latinos, and Asians would have been outlawed if left up to the state ballot boxes] but the gay movement's counting on that for marriage equality at the exclusion of a multi-pronged approach was poltical suicide. The score: Gays - 1; Bigots - 32.
Our "leaders" have hobbled our progress repeatedly by ignoring hoi polloi, putting their trust in the enlightened elected rather than working tirelessly to enlighten the electorate [except at the last minute]. They've sold t-shirts and key chains, they've held black tie galas and Tina-saturated circuit parties. They've killed entire forests for their paper blizzard of press releases almost universally ignored. And they have perfected preaching to the choir rather than enlisting them to FIGHT for their rights. They act as if we all live on Planet Gay, and our enemies live on another planet so we need not really worry about them. Dance on, Darlings.
Over their history, HRC has surely taken in close to half a BILLION dollars. We are still Human. Where are our Rights? What was their Campaign? NGLTF has collected far less, but has entirely failed at the Task of our Liberation.
We are still Gay and Lesbian, but what has GLAAD done with the millions we sent them to stop our Defamation?
And, yes, the fault, Dear Brutus, is also in our stars that we are underlings. While the American Taliban was firing missles of lies and deceit, Ellen mewed like one of her kittens about marriage equality, but she reached into her $70 MILLION fortune too late and for too little to save anyone but herself and HER wife. Is anything changed around their Bel Aire mansion other than her doing her happy dance that what she really fought for, Prop 2, and the duckies and the moo cows in California will have more room to move—before they're slaughtered.
Rosie broke her promise to SF Mayor Gavin Newsom to "be there" if he ever needed her, and effectively gave the blog finger to anyone who asked why.
Elton couldn't directly give money as a non-citizen, but couldn't he at least have donated his time for a fundraiser?
When you go see "Milk," remember that, at last look, its director Gus Van Sant only donated $2500 against 8.
When you tune in to watch Kevin and Scottie on "Brothers & Sisters," remember that its rich creator, Greg Berlanti, apparently gave less than $40,000. Readers of Towleroad collectively donated at least twice as much.
When you replay your CDs by millionairess Madonna or consider buying a ticket to her current concert tour, remember that she just threw some WORDS against 8 out to people paying as much as $400 a piece for their tickets.
I was outraged by the early mistakes of the NO "leaders," but kept sending them money hoping they'd do better, and they did in the last two weeks. THAT's WHY talking about how much MORE money might have helped is important. Imagine our having a half hour TV ad in CA telling our story the way Obama did hisnationwide. Not everything he did worked either, but the success of what he did right was ENTIRELY dependent upon the unpredendeted amounts of money he had to spend.
And the betrayal of Ellen, et al., remains a FACT irregardless of anything else.
No, don't blame rabid dogs for biting you—and celebrating afterward. Ask why our paid leaders and praised idols have let them run loose for decades, only trying to stop them when they're already at our jugular veins.
Within days we will start getting e-mails and snail-mailes from HRC, EQCA, NGLTF, GLAAD, NCLR asking for money. Reply saying FUCK OFF! Write RETURN TO INCOMPETENT SENDER on the envelopes. DEMAND the resignations of Joe Solmonese, Kate Kendall, Geoffrey Kors, and the what's-their-name heads of GLAAD and NGLTF.
Their collective 30-years of ignoring reality has resulted in our worst defeat since DADT [yes, DOMA, merely affirmed our pre-existing inequality]. It's back to the drawing board for the liberation of our people. It's not going to come through the magic sword of Obama. We must educate and, yes, we must agitate. For fear of civil disobediance was a MAJOR factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965.
CHOOSE, Gay America.
Posted by: Leland Frances | Nov 5, 2008 3:52:42 PM
It's time to get serious and proactive.
Our community needs to propose 3 constitutional amendments for the next election:
1) a ban on divorce
2) a ban on second marriages
3) marriage must produce a child within 2 years or be annulled.
It's time the other side learned what it's like to possibly have their rights taken away. Obviously, they won't pass, but they could open some eyes, and minds.
Posted by: Kevin | Nov 5, 2008 3:52:59 PM
Very sad moment! I really did not think prop 8 would pass. However, it is only a setback. Everytime gay marriage comes to a vote it brings the importance of equal rights to the table, empowers the LGBT community and get closer to passing. The right can pray and cling hard, but their numbers are falling and votes are getting tighter. We gained 9 points in this election. The last time California voted it was 61% against and this time it was down to 52%. Sad as it may be, it shows progress!
Posted by: RB | Nov 5, 2008 3:57:12 PM
I really have to go lie down and turn off my computer for a week. This enrages me almost to the point of violence.
Posted by: Marc | Nov 5, 2008 3:57:13 PM
I'm getting really upset about all the attacks on Blacks. I don't understand how that anger got placed on a minority of majority. A larger portion of them don't identify with you and your struggle. And who's fault is that??
How about using your energy to attack those that keep pressing for this issue year-after-year across the country: James Dobson and Focus on the Family, the Rev. Fred Phelpses and the Pat Robertsons of the world and the Mormons. People who look just like you.
Posted by: Alex | Nov 5, 2008 4:04:11 PM
I would LOVE to see those people on our side REFUSE to marry if CA if our rights are taken away!
Posted by: taloisi | Nov 5, 2008 4:04:19 PM