VIDEO: Anti-Prop 8 Star-Studded Musical

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• Hey, Nikki:

  Shouldn’t the headline read more like your snarky anti-Al-Franken-for-Senate video post?

  D-LIST ACTORS DISS RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND OBAMA-NATION BLACKS

  Toldja,
  Ellsworth M. Toohey

  Comment by Ellsworth M. Toohey — Thursday December 4, 2008 @ 5:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• The singling out of Mormons, and the hateful nature of the ongoing anti-Mormon boycott, is not coincidental. Prop. 8 is being used as an excuse to vent pent-up anger at the Mormon Church, and the traditional lifestyle of Mormons. With each passing day, it seems that the web is filled with more and more hate speech directed at Mormons. As others have noted, the attacks on Mormons would not be tolerated if directed at other religious or ethnic groups.

  I am not a Mormon. But it is hard to imagine anything more counterproductive to gay rights than for gay advocates to engage in activities that legitimize any form of group-hate. And that is exactly what they are doing right now.

  What is most disturbing is that there has been complete silence from groups that normally defend religious freedom.

  As I noted above: How stupid can Prop 8 opponents get? They seem determined to keep setting new records.

  Comment by Terry Hughes — Thursday December 4, 2008 @ 5:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• To Chris Cole:

  “It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society, under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger: and as, in the latter state, even the stronger individuals are prompted by the uncertainty of their condition to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves, so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions be gradually induced by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.”

  Federalist 51

  Comment by Miss No One — Saturday December 6, 2008 @ 8:43am PST  Reply to this post