Your much anticipated post-Prop. 8 roundup

Cool, interactive maps of California displaying everything you would ever want to know about the fundraising and voting patterns state and countywide (L.A./Orange County) for the Proposition courtesy the L.A. Times here.

Instapundit has directed its readers to several posts at Gay Patriot (we love monolith-defying blog titles) whose central theme has been, “Where are the grown-ups?” Click on link and begin scrolling down.

And where are the grown-ups indeed? We keep reading about these protests that have been going on around the state since last week and wonder what it is that’s being protesting. We understand the No on 8 set may be angry, frustrated and may want to just blow off some steam but what is it exactly that they are protesting?

And wanting to vent and work out some angst is cool but this isn’t. The No on 8 crowd has a huge PR issue on their hands right now because of ugly incidents like the one in the linked video that took place in Palm Springs a couple of nights ago.

People will vote their conscious on what they believe to be principled grounds regarding Prop. 8… to a point. The point to which we refer is that tipping point when voters read about firefighters forced to participate in highly charged sexual events like the Gay Pride parade here in San Diego and the “teachable moments” of grade schoolers being taken to the same-sex wedding of their teacher or the treatment of the lady in the video and decide that “no, these are not the type of people I wish to support”.

Look at the video and ask yourself where they lost you. Was it the unrelenting in-your-face badgering of the woman? Was it the physical denial of that woman from being interviewed by the reporter? Or was it, possibly, where the woman appears to be knocked and/or shoved to where the cross she was carrying was loosed (or taken) from here grasp and then stomped on by these people?

Its sickening and it’s a shame. We have more than a handful of gay friends, acquaintances and co-workers and we know they would be disgusted by this. Rapidly disappearing, though, is the opportunity for any sort of rational civil discourse on the fate of same-sex marriage.