I still don't see how this relates to richardthinks original question about "well-meaning but uncertain people" have to fear from allowing same-sex marriage. The LDS wasn't even really on the radar for queer activists until they decided to throw their support wholeheartedly behind Prop 8.
And in answer to your question, no, I don't think a couple of noisy rallies (you seem to have conflated separate events in different parts of LA in your suggestion that they've continued "for days" outside a single local and multiplied one person jumping on one car into a movement) will add up to much of a chilling effect. Right now, gays in California feel very personally attacked by the legislation and are venting that; it won't last.
Like lhn, however, I am rather dismayed to see the LDS taking so much of the heat for what was, after all, a popular decision. At first I thought perhaps I was being oversensitive to the these sentiments because of our history of persecution against the LDS, but when a Semite tells you that anti-Mormonism is currently worse than anti-Semitism, it's sobering.
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Date: 2008-11-07 10:05 pm (UTC)And in answer to your question, no, I don't think a couple of noisy rallies (you seem to have conflated separate events in different parts of LA in your suggestion that they've continued "for days" outside a single local and multiplied one person jumping on one car into a movement) will add up to much of a chilling effect. Right now, gays in California feel very personally attacked by the legislation and are venting that; it won't last.
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