Prop 8 coverage banned.

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In an emergency move, supreme court has blocked video coverage of the prop-8 case after pleas from the right wing that they might face discrimination when they present and empty case based on fear and ignorance....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-prop-8-12-2010jan12,0,7701011.story

Oh yes. Gay on straight violence is SUCH a problem.

Those men must live in fear of a vicious gang of lesbians showing up in front of their home and singing protest songs out of key while brutally abusing G-chords on acoustic guitars.

Wow. Compared to bombing gay bars, beating young boys to death and setting them on fire, and hundreds of violent assaults per year, it's easy to see why they're so scared.

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Proof in the pudding

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Maggie Howarth's all but admitted that if they have to explain themselves in the open in court for people to see, they lose. They know their case is based on prejudice and fearmongering. They know that their arguments ultimately fall to "religious discrimination" which violates the first amendment. They know their window of opportunity to set the terms of the debate is shrinking. Their claims of "fearing prejudice" is one more smokescreen move designed to try to keep them from having to admit in public that the only reason they want to ban gay marriage is that their god tells them it's sinful, which is really only one psychological step shy of saying "I think it's gross so you shouldn't do it because lalalalalalalalalala I can't hear you please don't stick your thingie in my butt!"

I hate saying this because it smacks of appeal to invalid authority, but I know I've seen psych studies that show that getting people to change brand identification is much harder than getting people to identify with a brand in the first place. I think they're trying to sell "sanctity of marriage" as a brand identity, because they know they lose on anything less. We win if we can be patient long enough for the current generation of bigots to die, because the next generation doesn't understand what the fuss is. That's small comfort to those of us who want it now, but we can take comfort in the idea that we've already won in the long run.

Now all I need it the patience not to assassinate the Pope for being a douche, and we're set.