If I don't get my way I’m going to ...

The supporters of the Calif. gay marriage ban are in a snit and have filed a lawsuit seeking to have their donations to the campaign for the ban and any such future campaigns to be removed from public records. The reason for the lawsuit: Their donors got threatening emails and postcards and some of them have been subject to boycotts.

Equality California and others on the gay side describe the lawsuit quite succinctly: Hypocrites. These same people sent threatening letters to gay supporters during the campaign. By future campaigns the Fundies don't mean propositions in general, and they don't mean their opponents. They only mean campaigns they undertake. Then they claim that the marriage ban -- since it was passed by the voters -- can't possibly be overturned by the courts, yet the donor disclosure law -- even though it was passed by the voters -- must be. Where's an activist judge when you need one? They've spent months gloating how their deep pockets were able to get the ban passed yet when we look to see exactly whose pockets they are they cry foul. Also despicable is the huge underreporting of donations-in-kind by the Mormon Church to get the thing passed (currently being investigated). It's amazing how quickly bullies turn into whining victims.

A more thorough report says the evidence the ban supporters are using to justify their victimhood are laughably trivial. Even though the government might remove official lists, enough gay groups have downloaded copies so the data could reappear in the public domain quite quickly. Challenges to the donor disclosure law, passed in 1974, have consistently failed. One final tidbit. The ban supporters have one more report to file, due on Jan. 31, and say this report has info not previously reported. They want to be able to keep this report secret too. Since the group is going through a lot of time and money for an effort almost certain to fail, one suspects the report contains a bombshell.