Comment Re:Moral of the story... (Score 0) 1746
bigotry of differing opinions.
This sentence is utter nonsense, sorry. One is free to criticize differing opinions. Bigotry has a very specific meaning.
Even filling in the oval on the ballot could come back and haunt you depending on how your ballot is treated and if it can be linked to you (here in Washington State, it's a trivial matter)).
That's why your ballot is anonymous, and if it isn't then you should push to fix that.
I don't know about you, I don't know which groups I might be heading in 6 years, or 60 for that matter... best to just stop voting, donating money or having opinions that someone somewhere might find offensive... unless that too is considered offensive.
It's not like he had no idea what the goals of Prop 8 were. If you show support for an organization and politician who are dedicated to denying people rights on a wholly irrational and arbitrary basis, that just might come back to bite you. So I recommend looking closely at the goals of a group, and the progression of said group. And if you find that it targets a group of people and demans them and attempts to influence government in a way that specifically disadvantages them, yeah you might want to not be associated with it. People don't like that, at all.