Prop 8 Mormon Backer fired from theatre
The anger of gay rights activists against proposition 8 takes a new form. The Mormon Creative Director of a theater in Sacramento California has been forced to quit his job after it was discovered that he had donated 000 to ending gay marriage.
This was discovered because of a US regulation that registers all political donations.
Scott Eckern's donation was discovered by gay rights campaigners from the Good As You (GAY) organization.
"Never work with you again"
The outrage was varied and severe. People in the commonly gay theater industry could not understand the "betrayal" from a their colleague, and people like the writer of the musical "Hairspray" wrote angry letters with lines like this one:
"The thought that your donation came from the salary you earned through profits made by a show that I wrote upsets me so much that I shall never allow for any of my plays to be performed in your theater.
The pressure because unsustainable and Eckern quit.
Eckern expressed regret at being distanced from his job because of his personal beliefs, and while his Mormon church backs his move, some people do not agree with his quitting.
Protests against the gay marriage ban in California have been raging for the last week and half, not only in California, but in many parts of the US, including New York and Ohio.
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cool!
I’m happy to read this!
What the heck is that supposed to be? Straight-bashing?
when the heterosexual are going to be in minority and I will take away their right to marry, that will be hetero-bashing. and I refuse to accept this mortifying expression Americans have invented, “straight”. watt the fuck makes them straight, or straighter than me. the fact that they fuck girls, instead of men. then watt about bisexual are they half-straight half-bent. it’s been a common voice these days, in the gay community and majorly in the religious communities, that gay rights should not be fought like we do it, because this is taking their rights away from freedom of expression and consciousness. if their hate, and sexual dictatorship is a freedom, that I want that freedom to disappear. I live in a world where I cannot marry the person I love. the children we have may lose both parents at the same time if one of us dies, because the other one is not recognised as a parent. we are attacked verbally and physically every day. during our childhood we don’t hear fairy stories about two boys falling in love, we don’t go to class balls at the age of 14 with whom we want to, and I can continue endlessly. when the world will turn upside down, and they have suffered the same humiliation for thousands of years, than will you have the right to name this hetero-bashing, yes when they will get exterminated in gas chambers because of their heterosexuality like thousand and thousand of gays, than you and all like you can speak.
until then this point of view just proves how fucked up some are.
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