Oh, snap, someone is going to Zap! Rick Warren's ex-gay ministry, one day.
More from Sullivan:
Of course, being "pro-family" for Perkins and Warren definitionally excludes gay family members.
Yeah, and, if you watch the news, it means temple-sex with under-age girls at a polygamy cult is just fine with him and others.
...is not a function of an alienated base, it seems to me, so much as salt on the wound of Proposition 8
I think it is related to the fundamental unjustness of Proposition 8, not necessarily related to differences of opinion about its content.
What I mean is that all the deliberative bodies of civil society weighed in, including the highest court and the legislature. Eventually, the executive body (Schwarzenegger) acquiesced to the change. After that, the Mullahs moved in to exercise public-prejudice veto over it all, via a constitutional change, at a mere 50% of the vote.
There is something inherently unjust about muscling a minority, that way; and that's before we look at the kinds of disinformation and fears that they used to press their "Yes on 8" campaign.
The same goes for what happened in Arizona, which is arguably even worse. There, the Mullahs moved in advance of change, as the courts had already ruled in a way that indicated that they would not follow the California court.
