Ready...Aim...Shoot yourself in the foot!

Nobody likes a whiner or a sore loser. In fact, most times it makes you look bad and makes people glad you lost. That is why we see Dr. Dobson, Dr. Lutzer, Chuck Colson, and other Christian leaders who voted against Obama now being gracious and saying we all need to work together and pray for our leaders etc. Fine-that is what we should do and will do. Now contrast that to the seemingly endless protests over the passing of Proposition 8 in California. Just what are these people protesting? How can you protest the outcome of a fair and free vote? How can you protest the will of the people? Yet there they are; ripping signs from the hands of old ladies, putting graffiti on churches, stomping on crosses and the like.

A little history here would help us see how ridiculous this is. Four years ago an amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman was on the ballot in California. It passed 61%. Then activists judges two years later deemed that the will of the people in that vote was "unconstitutional." That cleared the way for all of the gay marriages to take place (even the one where public school children were taken on a field trip to see it!). The people of California went through the proper channels to challenge the decision of the court and got a ballot measure put on this time to "take away" the right for the homosexual to marry. They still have civil unions. The legislators intentionally worded it to sound as if these rights were being stripped from these citizens in order to make it less likely to pass. That and actors like Brad Pitt and Drew Barrymore giving tons of money to fight against it; and yet it still passed. Now we see the protesters claiming discrimination and so forth. If California is against gay marriage, what do you think the vote would be in the rest of the country? The overwhelming will of the people is that traditional marriage be upheld. It is our country's immune system and must be protected.

That brings us back to the protesters. In my opinion, they need to put down the Starbucks, step away from picket lines, go back to work and be productive citizens. They are free to do whatever they want. However, they are clearly hurting their image and their cause by their recent actions. They are harming the way they are viewed in our society much more that Prop 8 ever could. They are shooting themselves in the foot.