In the New York Post, Michelle Malkin sums-up the focus of the side that lost the vote on the California marriage amendment:

Instead of introspection and self-criticism, however, the sore losers who opposed Prop. 8 responded with threats, fists and blacklists. [...] Rich Raddon, director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, is next on the chopping block [...] Over the last two weeks, anti-Prop. 8 organizers have targeted Mormon, Catholic and evangelical churches. [...] The Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City received threatening letters containing an unidentified powder. [...] [A]nti-Prop. 8 boycotters are now going after the left-wing Sundance Film Festival because it does business in Mormon-friendly Utah. [...] Corporate honchos, church leaders and small donors alike are in the same-sex-marriage mob's crosshairs, all unfairly demonized as hate-filled bigots by bona fide hate-filled bigots who have abandoned decency in pursuit of "equal rights."

The leadership of the No campaign lost despite their having started with a very big lead. The supporters of SSM ought to be reconsidering the premise of SSM argumentation. They have given no hint of doing so.

The vote was close, but the trend was moving toward the Yes side such that, if the vote had been held a couple of weeks later the margin of victory would likely have neared, perhaps bettered, the outcome of the previous marriage vote in 2000. The ill-tempered tone of the overall No side probably contributed as much to that as anything presented by the Yes campaign.

The No leadership appears to be much more comfy with its courtcentric strategy than with being held accountable to the pro-SSM crowd on the street. That is because the leading edge of that crowd is less concerned with justice and has instead become enflamed with the firey rhetoric of "just us".

And this leading edge is not a fringe of extremists. Even the No leadership has encouraged all SSM supporters to become militant. They've been instructing their followers that disagreement with their cause is itself an act of bigotry, hatred, and persecution. That's nothing new. It is the sermon they have preached for years.

We should not be surprised that leaders and followers alike have come to believe that false accusation. It is taken on with a religious-like fervor even as their militants have attacked churches and assailed opponents whose "crime" was to exercise freedom of conscience.

Those who lead the No side are of one mind: instead of introspection they have chosen to lend their voices to the enraged chants that villify opponents.

Malkin concluded with the question of leadership:

One wonders where Barack Obama - himself an opponent of Proposition 8 - is as this insane rage rages on. Soul-Fixer, Nation-Healer, where art thou?

I can tell you. He is preparing to throw a diversionary bone to the gay activists who now dog the supporters of marriage: see "Don't ask, don't tell".



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