The New Brownshirts: Gay Activists Seeking Retribution On Anyone Who Supported Prop 8

This is absolutely way, way over the line:

Should there be boycotts, blacklists, firings or de facto shunning of those who supported Proposition 8?
That’s the issue consuming many in liberal Hollywood who fought to defeat the initiative banning same-sex marriage and are now reeling with recrimination and dismay. Meanwhile, activists continue to comb donor lists and employ the Internet to expose those who donated money to support the ban.

“Activists”? They’re not “activists”. They’re hatchet men – and women – who would make the Nazi Brownshirts proud. Get this quote from one of their organizers:

And there remains a distinct contingent of same-sex marriage supporters who are adamant about retribution. One is Chad Griffin, a political advisor to Hollywood executives who says, “A dollar to the yes campaign is a dollar in support of bigotry, homophobia and discrimination. There are going to be consequences. Any individual who has held homophobic views and who has gone public by writing a check, you can expect to be publicly judged. Many can expect to pay a price for a long time to come.”

Let me say this – just because you didn’t support gay marriage doesn’t make you homophobic and certainly doesn’t make someone a bigot. Gays already have the right to marry. Nobody is denying them that. They simply do not have the extra right to marry someone of their own sex.
So…..it’s really about having an extra right granted to them that other people don’t have.
Anyway, these people are actively going after anyone they can show to have supported Proposition 8 and that, folks, is genuinely scary stuff. It’s even making many in the gay community uncomfortable:

Others are leery of punishing free speech, even if they consider it hateful. “I can’t quite stomach the notion that you fire somebody because of what they believe. It doesn’t feel right to me,” says Christine Vachon, a pillar of gay cinema who produced such films as “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Far From Heaven.”

The new Brownshirts are forgetting a simple law of physics: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. They’re no doing themselves or their cause any favors by going after people who don’t see things their way. They like to paint themselves as victims when in fact, they’re the predators in this situation.
Get this…..they ALREADY HAVE THE VERY SAME RIGHTS AS EVERYONE ELSE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Using blackmail and threats to get something special is a vile thing to do.