It is the notion that someone might be allowed to peacefully engage in protected political and religious speech that contradicts the gay rights agenda without massive retaliation.

WeÂ’ve seen that paradigm play out again and again over the last couple of weeks, as churches have been targeted, old ladies have been assaulted, and businesses threatened over the Prop 8 victory in California that overturned a rogue decision by the California Supreme court and reestablished nothing more than a status quo ante which included granting gay couples every single element of marriage without the name. But that is not good enough for the radical homosexualists, who now dare to brag that they are driving from the streets their fellow citizens whose views are with the majority of Californians (and, according to electoral outcome in 30 states, a majority of all Americans).

Take this example:

At first, they just shouted at us, using crude, rude, and foul language and calling us names like "haters" and "bigots". Since it was a long night, I can't even begin to remember all of the things that were shouted and/or chanted at us. Then, they started throwing hot coffee, soda and alcohol on us and spitting (and maybe even peeing) on us. Then, a group of guys surrounded us with whistles, and blasted them inches away from our ears continually. Then, they started getting violent and started shoving us.

At one point a man tried to steal one of our Bibles. Chrisdene noticed, so she walked up to him and said "Hey, that's not yours, can you please give it back?". He responded by hitting her on the head with the Bible, shoving her to the ground, and kicking her. I called the cops, and when they got there, they pulled her out of the circle and asked her if she wanted to press charges. She said "No, tell him I forgive him." Afterwards, she didn't rejoin us in the circle, but she made friends with one of the people in the crowd, and really connected heart to heart.

Roger got death threats. As the leader of our group, people looked him in the eyes and said "I am going to kill you.", and they were serious. A cop heard one of them, and confronted him. (This part is kinda graphic, so you should skip the paragraph if you don't want to be offended.) It wasn't long before the violence turned to perversion. They were touching and grabbing me, and trying to shove things in my butt, and even trying to take off my pants - basically trying to molest me. I used one hand to hold my pants up, while I used the other arm to hold one of the girls. The guys huddled around all the girls, and protected them.

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Eventually, as the crowd was getting more and more uncontrollable, the cops were afraid for our lives, so they escorted us to our van. (The cops were very nice to us from start to finish.) Our van was parked pretty far because it was hard to find parking that day. As the cops escorted us, the mob followed us, until the cops formed a line, and held off the people so we could drive away. We took the long way home, just in case anyone tried to follow us.

Note the pride at the end of the entry that violence and threats of violence were directed against individuals because of their religion – a recurrent theme on the hateful blog from which the excerpt above was taken.

Some responsible gay leaders have taken issue with the radical homosexualists, condemning the violence and extremist rhetoric. Even such irresponsible voices as homosexualist writer Andrew Sullivan (who is still flogging his ludicrous “Trig isn’t Sarah Palin’s baby” meme) are now recognizing that the Gay Gestapo are doing the cause of gay rights no good and much harm. Could it be a sign that the brush fires of homo-terrorism and homo-fascism we have seen over the last two weeks will soon burn itself out?

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For this program to be sponsored and moderated by the government of Saudi Arabia is so ludicrously offensive as to approch being obscene.

Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich Islamic kingdom that forbids the public practice of other religious faiths, will preside Wednesday over a two-day U.N. conference on religious tolerance that will draw more than a dozen world leaders, including President Bush, Israeli President Shimon Peres and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The event is part of a personal initiative by Saudi King Abdullah to promote an interfaith dialogue among the world's major religions.

IÂ’m sorry, but for the head of a nation with an established religion that not only forbids religious freedom but also prescribes (and imposes) death as a penalty for conversion to host such an event is offensive. There really isnÂ’t anything to talk about with Islam until the adherents of that faith are prepared to come out of the sixth century and allow all believers the rights that they demand for themselves. IÂ’m ashamed of President Bush for having participated in this farce.

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