They used to do this not only to the gays but to the Jews, the witches and the heretics. Unfortunately for them witches are not real and Hitler ruined the Jews for them. The heretics were the only ones that won out, hence all the denominations of a so called “Christianity”, many making money keeping down “the gays”. These same people used to claim a biblical right to own people and don’t you dare tell them they don’t you liberal bleeding heart slave lover.

They ignore the fact gays are the people they used to burn alive next to the witches and the heretics and the people Hitler sent to the death camps right along with the Jews.

Both the Jews and the witches were blamed for illness just as the gays are today. It never mattered that the Jews were dying right along side or that there is no such thing as witchcraft, there was someone to blame. And it was a belief sanctioned by the church, both Catholic and Protestant, just like slavery.

They had books and proofs against the witches and the Jews. Holy writ sanctioned by the church comprised of nothing falsehoods. Things which were not then and have never been true. Things which could not be wrong and never could be wrong but were wrong.

After centuries of church sponsored hate all they have left are the gays. The catch all catagory you could use when heretic or witch wouldn’t work and the victim wasn’t a Jew. An entire group for which it was acceptable to deny all human and civil rights. A group which could be imprisoned in this country for dissemination of information, for gathering in groups of two or more in public or private, for touching, for being. People who could be jailed, guilty of nothing but the very fact they existed as they did or as someone claimed they did. Condemned to ridicule and shame, deprivation and hardship. The slightest hint that they might be “that way” justification to throw them out, no questions asked, or to call the authorities to haul them off to the prisons or the asylum. And then there was it’s justification for murder. Another depraved sinner off the streets. They had it coming for being who they were. They were only a filthy…

All justifiable in the eyes of the Lord. For the bible tells me so, human rights and the constitution be damned. Forever and ever. Just like with the Jews, just like with the witches. How dare they infringe upon my right to hate and despise them, to wish to deny them rights. How dare they. Their very being offends me and I have a right granted to me by my religion which supercedes all to denounce them in the public square and to denigrate them as an entire group and condemn them to hell in the afterlife and to make them as miserable in this life as I possibly can. For they deserve no “special” right to the same things I am entitled to because they are on a long list of sins nobody accepts as sins anymore. They have it coming and it is my right to give it to them. If the bible isn’t good enough I have “science” and “facts”, and please ignore the man behind the curtain with evidence which refutes what I say because it cannot be right as it favors the depraved sinners and therefore must be wrong for the bible tells me so.

The gays have to put up with it. For them to not put up with it just proves how evil and debased they are, shoving their sex life in my face, I don’t care if they don’t have sex or not my mere thinking they might is enough.

That folks, is all they have.

Since the 1950′s gays have won the rights in court to form organizations, send information on homosexuality through the mail and to be able to gather in groups of two or more. Laws designed to keep gays from the courthouse have been deemed unconstitutional as were those which criminalized private consensual sex, and the “gay panic” defense is no longer valid.

It is time to kick the modern day witch hunters to the curb and grant their victims, for that is what they are, the right to not live in fear that they might be fired from their employment or kicked out of their home because they are or have the been labeled as gay. The same rights the witch hunters have and wish to deny.

Ted Olson is not “formerly” conservative. He just happens to believe that equality under the law is a very conservative notion.

We have much more to gain than lose.

Unless, of course, you live in California. Guess where I live?

And now look where we are.
Conservative(formerly conservative?) lawyers successfully arguing a civil rights case to a conservative judge who decides in our favor.

ALL without the help of HRC, ACLU, or any of the people asking us for donations.

If we had lost at the trial level or not yet filed suit in the first place, this would be a no-brainer pedal-to-the-metal moment. With the prospect of killing Prop 8 and leaving it there as the alternative, I’m really torn.

If California doesn’t appeal then Olson and Boies need to go to another state and do the same thing they did in California.