Reply #37: I have to agree with #1 and #2

[RedLetterRev]

Anti-gay bigotry has been tacitly approved by allowing it to continue to slink around in the shadows for so long. Sunlight is shining on it and the perpetrators are whining at getting called out.

I, too, refuse to give money to anyone who is liable to turn it around and use it against me. I've felt that way for years and have shopped that way for years. I've long, long done research on products and firms. Sometimes I've done without things I would really have like to have had. Too bad. Again, I will not patronize anyone who has shown a propensity to take my money, smile in my face, then use it to bury a knife in my back the second I turn around.

If they get called on their bigotry, perhaps rather than whining about it, they should undertake an amendment of purpose. Not calling them on their bigotry is exactly equal -- has always been equal -- to tacit approval of it. The only reason so many people went for Prop H8 is that they thought that bigotry was just peachy-keen, perfectly acceptable behavior as long as they could get away with it.

Consider the reaction an exercise in behavior modification.

There are consequences to hatred. They declared war on us first. They didn't think we'd have the nerve to pick up the glove.

If this had been a proposition to take an existing civil right away from any other minority group, the reaction would have been far, far worse. Californians had best count their lucky stars that the LGBTQ community is being this civil about it.