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11/01/2008
Pro bias fighters turn light towards 'yes on 8'
You know what organization knows a thing or two about discrimination? The Anti-Defamation League.
You know what organization is now lashing out against Brad Dacus, an official spokesman for California's "yes on 8" crew, for his caustic speech linking marriage equality to Hitler and Nazi Germany? Well, see for yourself:
"We are outraged and deeply offended that a spokesman for the Pacific Justice Institute has chosen to invoke images of Hitler and Nazi Germany as part of that organization's campaign on behalf of Proposition 8.
[The Anti-Defamation League] opposes the Proposition, but in our view, no matter what position one takes on this controversial contemporary moral and political issue, this analogy is hurtful and inappropriate.
We should not lose sight of the fact that six million Jews perished in the Holocaust. Unfortunately, it has become all too easy for some advocates of various political positions to suggest that their opponents are like the Nazis. Such comparisons are profoundly hurtful and should be off limits."
ADL Condemns Pacific Justice Institute for Invoking Hitler in Campaign for California's Proposition 8 [ADF]
A prominent member of a crew who dedicates their every day to futzing with one group's civil freedoms catches heat for insensitivity towards others. Well to be frank, that's about as shocking as learning that the kids whose sole commercial existence is to deny the Trix rabbit from simply eating a frickin' bowl of cereal were overhead extending their "it's for kids and only kids" logic to Toucan Sam and Cap n' Crunch as well!
Now, that's not to say that all who live in houses myopic enough to foist their personal, exclusionary world views onto the whole of society are "bigots" who "hate" others. It's also not to dog on the Trix commercial children who were just trying to make a buck. Regular readers of G-A-Y know that we don't believe the former, and those privy to this writer's dissertations on prepubescent cereal pitchers have facts to belie the latter. But what it is to say is that when you place your own faith, ideas, marriage, family, and political endeavors on a moral pedestal that can only be reached by subscribing to one narrow set of beliefs, verbal offenses (of even the unintentional variety) seem far more likely to slip out. It's also to say that from our experience: Unequal views seem to be less of a vacuum, more of a breeding ground.
**EARLIER: Let's not forget that a few another prominent California "Yes on 8" group, the Campaign for Children and Families (led by ever-present head Randy Thomasson), compared those clerks who have to issue same-sex marriage licenses to the Nazi officers who were once forced to gas jews:
'Gas the jews' vs. 'Marry the gays': 'SaveCalifornia' get cold feet [G-A-Y]
Your thoughts
I wish the Anti-Defamation League would have included the fact that HOMOSEXUALS were one of the minorities targeted by the Nazis and how inappropriate to claim that a oppressed group that was victimized by the Nazis is acting like the Nazis simply because they are fighting to be treated equally.
Next thing you know these crazy people will be comparing the Anti-Defamation League to the Nazis.
Posted by: Zeke | Nov 2, 2008 2:27:59 PM
That won't happen, Zeke.
Gay activists push the whole "be like Gandhi, be docile" bullshit onto the gay community. They also won't mention a lot of these "religious leaders" (Dobson, Perkins, the LaHaye's, etc.) pushed for the execution of gays in the 1980's - which would have been the holocaust all over again, right here in the USA.
It's a shame Gandhi wasn't gunned down much sooner, because thanks to his big mouth, it'll ALWAYS be open season on gay people. At least until the vaginas with legs are taken down as so-called "leaders of the gay rights movement".
Posted by: Scott | Nov 3, 2008 9:53:42 AM
"It's a shame Gandhi wasn't gunned down much sooner, because thanks to his big mouth, it'll ALWAYS be open season on gay people. At least until the vaginas with legs are taken down as so-called 'leaders of the gay rights movement'."
Scott: There are not strong enough words in the English language to encapsulate the sort of rebuke I'd like to issue towards these comments. UNCOOL, dude.
Posted by: G-A-Y | Nov 3, 2008 10:03:14 AM
Sorry to have offended you, Jeremy!
But that's exactly how I feel - adopting Gandhi's words and actions is probably the worst thing the gay community could do. To me, personally, it's equal to plastering a bullseye target right on your back, like a "kick me" sign.
I don't go for that "you can kick me, you can stab me, you can run me over with a monster truck, and I will sit here smiling in silence except to beg for more abuse, until you're finished" bullshit. Fuck that!
I'm a little more reactive than THAT. If you kick me, you forfeit your foot. Scratch that, I'll be taking both of them. Do it to me when I'm in a BAD mood, and I'll be taking more than that.
Posted by: Scott | Nov 3, 2008 2:23:19 PM
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