Prop 8 backers now whining that they have been linked to "extreme" groups which supported Prop 8

[Bluebear]

The group that persuaded California voters this month to pass Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, now is fighting its friends as well as its foes.

Other conservative groups that loudly backed Prop. 8 are being targeted as too extreme and off-putting by ProtectMarriage.com, which put the constitutional amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot and hopes to help persuade the state Supreme Court to uphold the measure...

"That organization represents the extreme fringe and is not representative of the coalition that got it passed," Pugno said. "They didn't even support Prop. 8 until sometime in the summer."...

"If the court disobeys the constitution by voiding Prop. 8, it will ignite a voter revolt," Thomasson said in statement released after the court agreed Wednesday to hear arguments over the validity of the constitutional amendment. "The court is playing with fire by threatening to destroy the people's vote on marriage."

Pugno and others from the Prop. 8 campaign want to avoid such fiery challenges and threats to the court and keep matters on a quiet legal level until the court rules on same-sex marriage sometime after March.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/23/BA21149LUL.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Waah! Too fucking bad.

You sleep with the dogs, you wake up with fleas.

[Maat]

2. I couldn't have said it better, Gormy Cuss!

This Straight For Equality will NOT be purchasing the products of those who donated to the Yes-On-H8 campaign.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Same here. n/t

[blonndee]

3. Like working to bring to vote a bill that denies civil rights is not of the "extreme fringe"?

Not "too extreme and off-putting"? :eyes:

Look within, hateful people.

[DBoon]

5. if you create a manure pile

you shouldn't complain when you are bothered by flies

[Iggo]

6. Oh, they knew exactly the voters they were going for.

Now that they don't need the Brownshirts anymore, out come the long knives.

(I'm pretty sure I didn't mix metaphors there...but I'm kinda tired.)