The victim is the agressor

This gets tiresome. An organization called the Becket Fund appears to be planning a round of newspaper ads claiming the gay response to the Calif. marriage ban constitutes a "Campaign of Violence." This is part of an effort to make the victim look like the aggressor. Their claim to violence is a mysterious white powder sent to a few Mormon churches and a couple bullet holes in church windows. These incidents are under investigation and there is no evidence yet that they were perpetrated by gay protesters. Dan Savage said that gays are not targeted private religious beliefs, but public political actions. Yes, it is amazing that Mormons spent $20 million to harm families yet are playing the victim. A commenter to this post (alas, no longer appearing) listed numerous bombings of abortion providers and deaths of gays to hate crimes. And they accuse us of violence?

Another commentary first shows how the incidents mentioned above (and a couple others) will be highlighted for the "despicable" roles the gays played, but not what the Right did, or didn't do, as a part of the same events. Perhaps these organizations understand their blessings from Bush are coming to an end and they want to control the message to influence Obama.

A commenter calls us to the non-violent principles of Gandhi and King, perhaps even to the point of letting them do violence against us to demonstrate exactly who is violent. It was the British beating the Indians and the whites beating the blacks which decisively turned public perception. Even if we don't get to that point (I'm rather adverse to pain) I feel the church is simply doing more damage to itself. A lot of younger people know what gays are like and the more the message of the church conflicts with that the more likely they won't bother with the church.

The Mormons are bleating again, though they think it is only amongst themselves with nobody else listening (from an article in the Mormon Times). The bleat? We're sore losers. We won't shut up and take it. Let's see… Confident in their power, arrogant, and contemptuous. Yep, real family and Christian values. Sounds more like bluff talk from a bully who won by a much smaller margin than he's used to and afraid that in a rematch he'll lose.


This a much better way to put it, and fun besides. Prop 8, the Musical. The whole thing in just over 3 minutes, complete with guest appearance by Jesus to tell the anti-gay folks what's wrong with their argument. Lots of big Hollywood stars helped put this together, alas, not before the vote.