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WASHINGTON UPDATE: Reinvigor8 Marriage

Family Research Council

November 17, 2008

The importance of what took place in California on Proposition 8 is now obvious to the entire country. In the 29 other states that passed marriage amendments, Americans never witnessed an uprising of this magnitude. Like us, homosexuals understand the national implications of Prop 8. Their violent, post-election outcry should validate every action the pro-family community took in California -- but it also underscores the need to preserve that victory.

This weekend, advocates of same-sex "marriage" took to the streets for a simultaneous nationwide protest against the passage of California's marriage amendment.

FRC monitored what happened near the Capitol in Washington, when roughly 1,000 demonstrators marched toward what one organizer referred to as a "phallic symbol" -- the Washington Monument. Organized by grassroots activists over the internet, the rally was low-tech, with no speaker's platform or sound system, only bullhorns. One marcher's sign said bluntly, "This Means War," but the demonstrators in D.C. managed to avoid engaging in the vandalism and racism that had characterized earlier protests in California since Election Day.

In addition to printed signs from the "Party for Socialism and Liberation," many carried hand-lettered placards with bizarre and offensive messages such as "Jesus had two daddies," and "If I can't have a husband, I'll steal yours."

Homosexual activists are working desperately to get Prop 8 overturned in court. It's ironic that those who tout so loudly their "civil right" to marry have so little respect for those who prevailed at the ballot box in a free and fair election.