More gay demonstrations

According to today's LAT, gays demonstrated again last night in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and Modesto. The LAT's front page has a picture of gays demonstrating in Silver Lake, a district within Los Angeles where a famous gay bar once was located. The picture shows gays carrying signs saying "Stop the Hate," "Separate but equal is never equal" and "I am a 2nd class citizen."

But gays themselves are exhibiting hatred by behaving in a vindictive way toward those who voted in favor of Proposition 8 and by trying to intimidate opponents. Demonstrating at Mormon temples, blocking traffic at intersections and destroying or damaging property are examples of hateful behavior. Hanging a political opponent in effigy isn't helpful either.  Gays, the ones who demonstrate, are behaving like hateful, vindictive people.

Most troubling is that gays can't seem to identify in a coherent way why they're demonstrating. Obviously, they're angry that Proposition 8 passed but that was about marriage. How does Proposition 8  relate to "separate but equal" or "2nd class citizen?" 

Gays insist that they're being denied rights. Specifically, what rights?

Rainey rants, again

The LAT's James Rainey has a column in today's newspaper in which he takes on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, claiming they're saying outrageous things about Barack Obama. Rainey seems to say they should be more like him: objective, impartial, honest and principled. All mainstream newspapers are that way, Rainey suggests. Take the LAT for example. Rainey should re-read his own stuff.

Gays demonstrate again

Gays demonstrated again last night in West Hollywood, Long Beach and San Francisco, according to KNBC-TV Los Angeles. (It appears that the LAT did not report on these demonstrations in today's newspaper.) There also were reports of demonstrations in Salt Lake. Gays apparently believe these demonstrations will help to overturn Proposition 8. Either that or they just want to punish people who supported Prop. 8. 

The more this goes on, the worse gays look. They appear vindictive. These demonstrations likely will  cause gays to lose supporters instead of gaining them. You'd think that wiser gays would develop a smarter strategy.

Gays continue to say that Proposition 8 deprives them of rights but fail to specify which rights. In California, gays in same-sex partnerships have the same rights as married people.

Intimidation

Gays protested again last night in West L.A., this time outside a Mormon temple in Westwood, home of the UCLA Bruins. Is it intimidation? Sure. Gays are saying "Vote against us and we'll make your life miserable." It's what the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi brownshirts did.

"... they want to destroy gay people."

That's from a letter to the LAT, published today, signed by Joann Moschella of Santa Cruz. She's writing about "people who sponsored Proposition 8." It isn't true.

It should be obvious that what Proposition 8 supporters want is for marriage to remain what it has always been. They do not want change forced on them by four California Supreme Court justices. The people have spoken on this twice. That should be sufficient.

LAT takes aim at Palin, again

LAT reporter Kim Murphy, who has spent weeks if not months in Alaska trying to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin -- who would want such an assignment, especially with winter approaching? -- reports this morning from Anchorage saying Palin's "vice-presidential carriage [has] turned into a pumpkin." Lovely reporting.

Obama's victory speech

Peggy Noonan writes today in the WSJ about how proud she felt as she watched Barack Obama's victory speech in Grant Park in Chicago Tuesday night, proud because Obama overcame race to become the next president of the U.S. She calls the speech "sterling." Nothing wrong with that but Obama's outdoor speeches in Berlin, Denver and now Chicago are becoming a little tiresome; and the one Tuesday night seemed especially pompous. Wouldn't a simple thank you to his supporters from a hotel ballroom have served just as well? What was the point of an outdoor speech, especially in Chicago in November? He had already made numerous speeches laying out his campaign's promises to supporters. Did he say anything new Tuesday night? Not much, which is why it seemed pompous -- an attempt to show how big a crowd he could draw, to grandstand.