We especially note the efforts to attack Manny Pacquiao's livelihood by harassing Nike to drop their sponsorship of him:
"...The Courage Campaign, a community-organizing outfit that claims to have 750,000 members and is funded by the radical Tides Foundation, immediately called on Pacquiao-sponsor Nike to drop him over his "hate speech against gays." The group took to Twitter to demand that the athletic shoe company "Drop Manny," the "homophobic boxer." The call was amplified by Think Progress, an online character assassination squad backed by George Soros.
... While L.A. media outlets reported that The Grove has retracted its ban, Caruso had failed as of late Thursday evening to apologize on Twitter or acknowledge the false smears against Pacquiao that prompted the Soros goon squad's boycott demands.
... This bigoted anti-bigot brigade mimics a wave of similar campaigns against both social and fiscal heretics who refuse to conform to "progressive" values. Targets include Rush Limbaugh, the American Legislative Exchange Council, Mitt Romney donors, Wisconsin's union-reforming governor, lieutenant governor and GOP state legislators, Catholic health care providers, and now black church leaders and boxers who dare to state their religious views publicly.
Let this be a teachable moment on pernicious "community organizing" and brazen liberal hypocrisy. There is nothing more intolerant and chilling than the self-appointed, self-unaware tolerance police. -- CNS News
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Michelle Malkin and Mike Adams both quoted on the same day. It's all hate all the time at NOM. You people are absolutely pathetic.
It's time for our legislatures to repeal all hate crime laws. A crime is a crime and treating crimes differently on the basis of differences between the victims is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
So-called "hate crimes" advocate the punishment of thoughts and are better termed "thought crimes." But if they called them "thought crimes" laws against them would never be passed.
Excellent analysis by Michelle!
Why does anyone listen to a person who complains about incendiary rhetoric with more incendiary rhetoric? Granveille Ampong's poorly written blog led reasonable people to believe Manny Pacquiao supports capital punishment for gay people. Call me old-fashioned, but I'm not too suprised that gay people would object to that. Ms. Malkin blames the "gay marriage mob" first and the liberal media second, but has no criticism whatsoever for Graneville Ampong who's the one actually resopnsible for this mess.
Thank you Michelle and I would encourage all NOM supporters to get CNS news as the alternative to the mainstream media.
Used to be that folks who took journalism seriously would pick up the phone to call the author and the person interviewed to verify the facts. The majority of today's so-called "journalists" are little more than entertainers who are too lazy, too biased, too complicit to take the time and expend the energy necessary to write anything worth reading.
Serious journalists still exist, of course, but they are few and far between.
email Nike and tell to keep him for supporting true marriage.
Yes, and NOM spearheads the DumpStarbucks campaign and "Six Hundred and Forty Seven Moms" is trying to get Ellen fired from her JC Penny's gig. Two way street.