L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Compares Prop 8's Halting The Redefinition Of Marriage To Bans On Interracial Marriage

The following excerpt about the radical response of the "No On 8" supporters is from the Washington Post:

"The backlash against those who supported a ban on same-sex marriage continues to roil California and nearby states. Protests and vandalism of churches, boycotts of businesses and possibly related mailings of envelopes filled with white powder have followed the passage of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriages. In Sacramento, a high-profile theater director resigned from his job of 25 years after a boycott threat over his $1,000 donation in support of the measure. In Los Angeles, a Mexican restaurant owner, a Mormon who donated $100, was reduced to tears and left town after hundreds of protesters confronted her at work, by phone and on the Internet. 'You express your beliefs and you have to be punished for it?' said Arnoldo Archila, an employee at the El Coyote restaurant. 'This is not right, not in this country. This is not Iraq.'" To see the full article visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403508.html"

At this point, "No On Hate, Yes On 8" seems appropriate.


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