Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Try to Scare Donors Away from Prop. 8

I am still looking for a single cogent argument how a same-sex marriage, in any way, affect anyone's "traditional marriage" but I digress.

The Christian Right's hero, Don Wildmon (who, by the way is a virulent anti-Semite), has organized boycotts against Hallmark for producing same-sex wedding cards.

The McDonald's boycott is absurd. Sure, they joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (sounds rather "Log Cabin" to me). Other NGLCC members include IBM, Hilton, Intel, JP Morgan, Citigroup + another 100 or so obviously sinister endeavors.

I think that it's rather odd for the right to complain about economic leverage against people financing Prop-8.

David Hart
http://www.tips-q.com

Two responses. One, there is a tactical difference. Traditional marriage activists generally focus only on the targeted corporate donors, whereas same-sex marriage advocates more aggressively try to scare off suppliers and patrons of their targeted donors. The former tactic is taking our disagreement to the one with whom we have an issue. The latter tactic is a tendency to truculence and to making everyone else pay. It is also more Machiavellian and less principled.

Two, same-sex marriage advocacy is less principled altogether. Normal marriage is the status quo. It has been good for the human family, for society, for the nations, and for our community in particular. This is to be expected because it is patently in accord with nature. It is a social institution that requires us to live beyond ourselves. This cannot be said for same-sex union, which primarily caters to the partners' wants. Society doesn't benefit from it as it does from normal marriage. There may be some articulable minor benefit like getting some profligate off the street, but as a whole, as an "institution," same-sex union comes nowhere near benefiting society in as many ways or to the same magnitude as normal marriage.

This is why it is principled to boycott those who would dilute normal marriage and unprincipled to do the opposite. One side is right, the other is wrong.

It's disappointing to learn of fellow Americans who would stoop to peddling lies to support their position. Google "Six Consequences if Proposition 8 Fails" ... these are six totally false talking points that the "Yes on 8" campaign is trying to use to fire up their target voters. Anyone who bothers to study the issue will quickly learn that these six "consequences" are total fabrications and sad examples of ugly fearmongering from the "Yes on 8" campaign. Shame.