These are the people accusing us of hate and bigotry. I love the example they are setting. If you don't get you way in a democracy, villianize those that opposed you. Send suspicious packages filled with white powder to their places of worship. Blame them of the very types of activities of which you are guilty (hate and discrimination). I for one enjoy being hated by hypocrites like these who do not tolerate any view but their own.
LDS voters made up less than 2.4% of the electorate in California (about 250,000 eligible voters). There are an estimated 10 million Catholics, not to mention Jews, Protestants, "Evangelical" Christians, etc., etc. And yet we are the one's being targeted for these attacks. Orson Scott Card collected a lot of the information in an interesting article at MormonTimes. Check it out here, it's good reading, I highly recommend it.
This whole effort is really about redefining the meaning of the word "marriage", from "man + woman" to "man/woman + man/woman" (or *+* for all you geeks out there). This is what we're actually talking about, not equal rights. Any gay man already has the right to marry any willing woman he can find. That is the exact same right that I enjoy, nothing different.
Anyway this all reminds me of a quote by Douglas Adams, which is funny since he was an adamant athiest. In his book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" there is a small yellow fish, which when placed in your ear, has the remarkable effect of making it instantly possible to understand any language you hear. Adams continues,
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. "
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. "
Let's try not to get killed at any zebra crossings which by the way, is really just "British" for "Crosswalk", I wouldn't want to be accused of trying to change the meaning of that word ;-)
