We put it up. We voted.
And now, like a baby that didn’t get their way, they’re throwing a temper tantrum. I guess we weren’t good enough puppets for them.
The National Organization for Marriage is putting up more than $1.5 million for anti-LGBT ads to erase the votes that average citizens like you and me put there to say, “We want this to happen.” I’m talking about Maine and the others that recently legalized gay marriage.
They’ve announced plans to gather the 55,000 signatures needed to get a Prop 8-style referendum on the Maine ballot this November. They’re also airing TV ads in New Hampshire slamming the governor who will soon decide the fate of marriage equality in the state.
Among the number of helpers is right-wing icon Pat Robertson – who recently said that the country was being “hypocritical” by allowing same-sex marriage and banning pedophilia and child molestation. “How can we criminalize these things and at the same time have constitutional amendments allowing same-sex marriage among homosexuals.” Who’s giving this hateful man a platform to be a homophobe, anyway, when he’s comparing your average person to Albert Hamilton Fish? That is beyond hateful and into scary.
“You mark my words,” Pat Robertson went on, “this is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent.”
Mr. Robertson, at least we voted for going downhill, instead of having our voting rights as Americans taken away from us.
