My thoughts on Tuesday’s election results at The Greenroom…….

In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, No on 1 campaign manager Jesse Connolly pledged that his side “will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.”

Just ask Mormons in California how serious these threats are. I’ve heard some stories… jobs lost, people being followed and harassed. This is a vicious, scary group of people!

Well just look at what happened to Miss California. This is political extortion.

But the Jesse Connolly quote shows that the veneer of rational discourse over the reality of entitlement and spite was very thin. It’s far less about “gays are people, too” and far more about, “…make you breeders accept us on our terms.”

So long as there is a “homosexual agenda” as such, which is used to divide “independent-minded, moderate” people from “backwards, bigoted haters”, I suspect that there will be limited traction for gay marriage. You can’t win people over by attacking them. Keeping to a “societal agenda with room for all” would be a much more successful plan — but only if sincerely embraced.

Wow. That is an insanely unnerving quote.

MadisonConservative on November 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM

That’s an understatement. In California they targeted supporters but now in Maine they’re going to go after the actual voters? Admittedly, I don’t see how they can do that, unless they do away with secret ballots and have a sort of “card check” gay rights election. But Connolly’s quote is recklessly dangerous.

That quote is why the gay marriage rights will continue to lose without some serious soul-searching.

Because, for a significant percentage, it’s not about equality. It’s about punishing those who disagree.

Mew