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Family Research Council on Prop 8 demonstration -- "anti-family rioting"

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Nov 07, 2008 at 10:30:00 AM EST


Talk about a skewed perspective on citizen rallies against bigotry. The Family Research Council has gall calling the Prop 8 demonstrations "anti-family rioting". (via email):
Not everyone was as jubilant about the gains for marriage as FRC and our supporters. This morning, FOX News posted photo after photo of the anti-family rioting in Los Angeles (where a majority of voters actually voted "yes" on Proposition 8), Hollywood, Santa Monica, and San Francisco. Hundreds of protestors spilled out into the street last night, blocking traffic, and, in one incident, climbing atop a police car. "...[A]bout 500 [demonstrators] gathered near CNN's Los Angeles bureau, where they were seen banging on the doors and walls, causing the [L.A.] police Department to declare a tactical alert. ...Several others were arrested..." With nearly all of the votes counted, Proposition 8 leads by more than a half million votes (52.5% to 47.5%). Even though there are an estimated three million mail and provisional ballots, none of the local officials expect the outcome to change. Members of the "No on 8" campaign are shocked and distressed, but San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (who famously declared that "gay marriage is here whether you like it or not!") said he is "hopeful" the courts will overturn the people's will. To that effect, three separate lawsuits have been filed in California courts, all challenging the validity of Proposition 8. Once again, homosexual extremists are turning to their place of preference for creating public policy-the courts. The nation's voice has long been a casualty of this powerful alliance between judicial activists and the radical Left. For years, liberals have used the courts to impose their agenda on Americans when the people or legislature refused.
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They are exercising their
First Amendment right to LIE.

Watching Fox news this am to catch reports of demonstrations in LA.  The female commentator opposite the guy who I think is gay, ragged on and on about judicial activits.  Commentated about how outrageous it was that 4 judges could overrule the will of the people...Her guest commentator agreed with her assessment.

Folks, this is the main non-religious objection to the happenings in California in this past year.  To me it point to the ignorance and uninformed about how government works.
So my question for the future, how to counter this objection to equality?

Now this anti-family thing is alot easier to counter....Hey you show gay families.  Duh...these are the people you are effecting...it comes down to visibility again.  I sure wish I had my "official second class citizen" t-shirt.  I would be wearing it everyday.  Everyother person who voted here in California voted to make me a second class citizen.  They should know who we are.  


To combat the "activist judges" lament I would . . .
. . . simply point out some court decisions that are now generally viewed as being right but which never would have been voted for by the general populace.  Say, like the Brown v. Board of Education, for example.  Or, if one is feeling particularly snarky, perhaps one could point out how the election went to Mr Bush in 2000?  Some other examples of the "will of the people" being wrong might help too - like American Independence.  Ya think the people in England would have voted us our freedoms?

Some mentions of how our country's founders talked about "the tyranny of the majority" - James Madison in the Federalist #10 talked about it, so did Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville in his books, Democracy in America - would help too.  Maybe not with the radical haters but with those who have forgotten their civics lessons from high school.


[ Parent ]
Time for these "churches" to pay taxes.
They are basically just lobbyists at this point in some cases.  They should be taxed accordingly.

My America includes LGBT families.

Take the LDS (Mormon) Church to task where they will notice
In their wallet.  File a complaint asking the IRS to revoke the LDS Church tax exempt status.  Check out the site below and if so moved follow the directions to print out and mail the forms to the IRS.

http://lds501c3.wordpress.com/


[ Parent ]
Nothing new
The Religious Right has perfected the art form of kicking, punching, and abusing us, and then when we fight back, playing the "Waaaaah! I'm so persecuted!" card.

And since GLBT folks have historically been abused...this stops us
from pushing back.

[ Parent ]
What They Wished For
The conservatives invented the whole idea of a "culture war."  And now they pretend to be outraged that it has become a war indeed, one that involves people yelling in the streets, stopping traffic, and calling them out.

It's not so much turning to the courts instead of the will of the people...
It's more that we turn to the courts to make sure the will of the majority can only be imposed on the minority when that will doesn't violate the equal protection provisions of the state or federal constitution. Minor detail, that.

Not so minor
but still so easily forgetable by these bigots.

I am the lizard queen!

[ Parent ]
You and I understand this....
but since "the courts overruled the will of the people" is one of the main forces dragging on equality...Do you have a suggestion or insight on how to counter this anti equality arguement?

[ Parent ]
Maybe by pointing out...
...that the will of the people in many states would probably easily pass constitutional amendments banning interracial marriage, or restricting voting rights to landowning white males, but that any such amendments (or statutes) would never be ratified or enacted because they violate existing constitutional provisions.

Or to make it even simpler, explain that in order to be the law of the land, the voice of the people has to follow the rules already laid out in the constitution. Judges aren't making up laws any more than NFL officials are making up rules when they call your team for holding, so if you want your 50-yard touchdown pass to stand, make sure your linemen aren't using their hands to grab the guys they're blocking.


[ Parent ]
Call the Mormons
You can call LDS world headquarters in Salt Lake at 801-240-1000 and let them know your opinion of their pouring twenty million into a state five hundred miles away in order to try to kill our families.
Tax-exempt indeed. They wanted a culture war. Let's give them one.  

Talk about judicial "activism"
haven't the courts far too long defended the right to practice tyranny in the name of "religion?"

Someone needs to remind the "Family" Junk Science Council that no one has elected or appointed them the exclusive representatives of the American family. It's just another wingnut scam operation which masks their dominionist ambitions in a special rights claim to being "Christian."
They apparently don't understand that the same right to create an imaginary friend in the sky who miraculously tells you whatever you wish to here can be removed, according to their philosophy, by majority vote.

The FRC is nothing but a front organization for tyranny. They've never represented any family I've ever known - and no one recognizes them but the rightwing media.


Anti-family
Anything that involves gay people in any capacity is "anti-family" to these people. They throw out the most hateful things and think it's OK if they do it with a smile and then say "OK but lets all be nice."

No. I don't think so. There is a serious problem with the "will of the people" argument when it involves denying and stripping away rights from another group of citizens.


just because one can vote doesn't make the majority
positon correct...

we'd still have slavery in southern states and many other unjust and immoral things if it did


I'm not anti-family
I love my family.  

What I am is anti-jerkwad.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #


hahahaha
What, they didn't think we'd just accept it? They just took OUR right after given! Oh, hell no, we're pissed and now people who didn't spoken out will now speak out! The Y-generation is piss to kingdom come! Oh, I'm on and I'm not going to stop until equality prevail!

So sick of this
Anti-family this, anti-family that.  WE ARE YOUR FAMILY.  Get that through your thick heads.  WE CAME FROM YOU.  But for your procreation we would not exist!  YOU ARE ANTI-FAMILY!

I think that's the slogan right there...
WE ARE YOUR FAMILY!

[ Parent ]
That was my reaction too.
These people call themselves godly. We are not anti-family. We exist in families. Probably in their families. We have families. We are fighting for our families. THEY are anti-family. Their brains are just so f*cking twisted.

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[ Parent ]
You Think?!
Not everyone was as jubilant about the gains for marriage as FRC and our supporters.

Sorry Tony if we just don't roll over and die for you.  

We're extremely pissed right now and have just become your worst nightmare!


Does anyone know
where the anti-family protests will be Saturday and Sunday? I want to join in. Any websites I can go to for information? Anyone I can call?

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing

See you there or be square
Google Queers United protest list if the following doesn't work for you..
http://queersunited.blogspot.c...

They've added ones since this morning.  I was going to go to the one Sat eve at Sunset and Santa Monica but now I see there's one in Woodland Hills.  I live in the Valley that's closer and also an area where there aren't usually protests.

Do I recall you are in Ventura?  If you want to meet up at the Woodland Hills one, if a protest doesn't get planned for Ventura, email me...we can meet up.

Oh and also Towleroad has protests listed but the link above is more extensive.


[ Parent ]
Chicago-area Protest

Info from Equality Illinois:

Dump Dobson Demonstration

On Tuesday California saw the very direct effect that anti-gay hate can have on the life choices available, or unavailable, to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community.

Hate – especially when broadcast on thousands of media outlets across the country – is not just words, but can be used with devastating effect to promote discriminatory public policy.

Focus on the Family's James Dobson put his media empire and $150 million annual budget at the service to defeat equal rights by passing California's Proposition 8, removing equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Now James Dobson is bringing his hate to Chicago, receiving an award from the Museum of Broadcast Communications at 5:30 PM this Saturday night at the Chicago Renaissance Hotel, 1 W. Wacker (corner of Wacker & State).

Let's not take the California defeat sitting down. Send a message to James Dobson and his supporters that hate is NOT welcome in Chicago.

Please join us in protest at 5:30 PM this Saturday night at 1 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago.

For information on the protest, contact the Gay Liberation Network at LGBTliberation@aol.com or visit our [Equality Illinois] website or the websites of our partners: www.GayLiberation.net, www.TruthWinsOut.com and www.DumpDobson.com



Actually, this isn't in the "Chicago area"

It is smack in downtown Chicago. :) 

I meant to be targeting this action to anybody in the Chicago area who might be able to participate.



[ Parent ]
Firedoglake
has a link to a petition to change the tax code and challenge the status of the Mormon church's tax-exempt status if they continue the overt political lobbying like they've done on Prop 8

AC 360 had that absolute F*CKTARD tony Perkins on
I swear to G*d every time I see him, I want to go for that Klan f*cker's throat. I can't imagine why either MSNBC or CNN would have him on EVER?

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


HUGE "anti-family riot" in Salt Lake City (video)
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