What would happen if Prop 8 had not passed and if supporters responded this way?

Gays would be calling them 'sore losers' but it seems many gay rights activists have shown them their true faces. Targeting Catholic and LDS churches? That is horrendous. I'm atheist and I'm in favor of gay marriage but these actions hurt most gay people who will not engage in that sort of mob behavior. They are being sore losers but more importantly vandalists.

When the courts of CA legalized gay marriage, its opponents chose to fight it the legal way which has benefited them. What makes gay people think that going out to the streets will benefit their cause? It doesn't. They should seek remedy through the courts and denounced this behavior. But they won't which is going to harm them in the long run. Many have created a 'blacklist' of anti-gay people, it resembles what McCarthy did in the 50s. They are being childish, malicious, and sore losers. No one likes a sore loser.

The best advice to gay people would be to denounce those types of attacks on the churches. Try to fight Prop 8 through a legal venue and stop demonizing the opposition. Their rights aren't going to come easy, they have to fight for it. Such is the reality.

It is so much fun to see people on here condone out right bashing, cussing people out, spitting on people, destruction of public property and terrorist actions (letters of white powder being sent to the opposition) because the other side "deserved it" or under the banner of protest.

If you people dont know the difference btwn reasonable, rational protesting and straight out bashing and illegal intimidation then there is no point in discussing this.

If you cant condemn that kind of obnoxious and illegal behavior then you are justifying and condoning it.

I still cant believe how many people, some that are answering this question right now, condoned the white powder incident. Do you get how over the line that is? It is under the law an act of terrorism meant to threaten and intimidate by fear of death and personal injury.

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Pretty much everyone on here, including most Christians, have condemned the actions of people like Phelps and yet I see very little condemnation of the kinds of over the top actions by some of these protesters. In fact many people have outright justified it.

Is this the same Michelle Malkin who claimed Rachel Ray was a terrorist sympathizer because she wore a scarf in a Dunkin Donuts commercial?

Why would I take anything she had to say seriously?

The civil rights of a minority should have never been put up to a vote by the majority in the first place. Why not just vote by popular vote to reinstate slavery and ben interracial marriage since people can find justification in the Bible for doing so?

Michelle Malkin wrote a lovely little book called In Defense of Internment which condones the internment camps where American citizens were held, without cause, in America during World War II. I think it is pretty clear where Michelle Malkin stands on civil rights.

The govt. probably would have sent out the National Guard to protect the gay crowd.

Edit; What does michaels murder have to do with prop. 8? That was years ago in another state.

I'm still hearing the:

Vote yes on 8 is hate

Yet, who are the hateful ones now?

I can't seem to get out of my mind the elder couple beatin' up for having a Yes sign in their yard, nor the elderly womean who had a cross ripped out of her hand and was roughed up.

When does it end and when do they realize we voted on this issue.......twice.....get over it!

Asked a similar question last week and it got tossed off YA. Man if we Christians had behaved in this manner it would be front page news on every network across the country.

What do we hear on mainstream media? Hark is that crickets chirping?

The hypocrisy is lost on any one but Christians.

I am sorry, but I understand the response of the disappointed pro-gay marriage people. And no, comparing it to the defeat of the GOP is NOT the same. The Democratic party has not taken any human rights away from a Republican minority.

And calling it a 'traditional marriage' movement... oh, the saccharine poison. ; ) Nothing is beneath these people.

So now it should be against the law to protest something you do not agree with? to be held accountable for your actions? I think not....I think the Christians are just whining that they are now tasting what they have been feeding gays for years....just seems the gays are doing it better...Christians routinely call for boycotts of such places as McDonald's and Pepsi for giving money to gay causes...and no one ever notices....but since gays are now doing the same thing and it is being followed and noticed it is a bad thing? I think not !

You mean by tying people to fences and beating them to death, like the way Proposition 8 supporters killed Matthew Shepard? Or perhaps you mean the way your side sent police to beat and imprison gays and lesbians in the Stonewall Riots? Or perhaps the way Proposition 8 supporters protest funerals of fallen soldiers to this day?

If basic human rights were not denied, nothing would have happened because no group would have lost rights. look what is happening in Massachusetts or Connecticut. Gays are getting married and no one has lost anything.

Yes, people are more pissed that it did pass because people lost basic human rights.