November 25th 2008
Gay Bigots’ Harassment Drives Film Exec From Job
B
igotry, hatred and intolerance from the gay marriage set has finally hounded Los Angeles Film Festival director Richard Raddon from his job. Raddon, a Mormon, had expressed his first amendment freedom of speech to support Prop 8, California’s gay marriage ban proposition, through activism and financial contributions.
Gay marriage bigots, who demand tolerance from us, showed Raddon no tolerance:
After Raddon’s contribution [of $1,500 to Prop 8] was made public online, Film Independent was swamped with criticism from “No on 8″ supporters both inside and outside the organization. Within days, Raddon offered to step down as festival director, but the board, which includes Don Cheadle, Forest Whitaker, Lionsgate President Tom Ortenberg and Fox Searchlight President Peter Rice, gave him a unanimous vote of confidence.
Yet, the anti-Raddon bile continued to bubble in the blogosphere, and according to one Film Independent board member, “No on 8″ supporters also berated Raddon personally via phone calls and e-mails. The recriminations ultimately proved too much, and when Raddon offered to resign again, this time the board accepted. (LA Times)
Raddon had taken the extraordinary step of actually apologizing for his actions, which are thoroughly legitimate and aligned with the opinion of a strong majority of California’s voting citizens. The apology should come from the gay bigots who are utterly, thoroughly, repulsively intolerant. Someone should bitch-slap every last one of them for the hate crime of the economic lynching of a straight man.
Michelle Malkin links to Variety’s coverage.
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Comments
November 26th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Please. I have no sympathy for anyone who donated to the Yes on Prop 8 fund. It can be painted any way they want (protecting families, protecting our children, protecting the sanctity of marriage, etc. etc.) but it’s nothing but intolerance. If people really cared about the sanctity of marriage then laws would have been passed to outlaw divorce (still a sin the last time I checked), or single parents. Millions of dollars were thrown into the Yes on 8 fund whose soul purpose was to take a right away from a group of individuals. Poor Raddon quit his job because he couldn’t handle the intolerance and “bigotry” sound like the biggest case of irony I’ve ever heard.
November 26th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Jason’s comments highlight the utter ridiculousness of the NO on 8 crowd. If they want to target the Mormons, they really should steer clear of the whole “what about divorce, adultery, single parent” schtick since the LDS are, without question, some of the most adament against such practices. Last time I checked, adultery and single parent adoption are still illegal in Utah. Anyway, theses issues are beside the point and Laer - you’ve nailed it on the head. The No on 8 bigots should be bitch-slapped, or more appropriately, just the ones who feel their moral golden calf of “equality” is higher than all other forms of social, sexual, or political decency and morality.
November 26th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Until Jimmy Carter threatened to tax the Mormon Church in 1978 for their domestic and international involvement in promoting segregation, they still believed people of color were “evil” and their skin color was a “punishment from God”. All of a sudden, exactly 3 weeks after the threat of taxation however, their leader claimed to have an epiphany and God changed his mind and told the Mormon people to accept people of color. The Mormon church, along with all the other so called “Christians” in this country deserve what they get for their promotion of bigotry and hate. At one time the majority of the people in this country believed in segregation. Did that make it right? For that matter, at one time, the majority of the world thought the earth was flat…so was it flat? Lastly, since “Christianity” is NOT the majority religion on earth, perhaps we should allow the majority religion tell Christians how and who they should worship!
November 26th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Raddon has a right to free speech and so do the No-On-8 folks. If Raddon loses his job, that is unfortunate, but he should have known that he was working in an industry where such views could be a liability, and his employer is well within his rights to fire him, much less accept his resignation. I would suggest that Raddon try to find a job where people share his views and, more importantly, spend as much time learning the Constitution as he apparently spends studying his religious faith.
Of course, the real issue is not about Raddon. While Laer continues to highlight these examples to try to make gays and those protecting gay rights to look really bad and intolerant, the cases are non-representative and irrelevant. They are non-representative because tyranny of the majority is a bigger risk than tyranny by a minority, which is why the equal protection clauses in the US and many state constitutions start their analysis by asking whether the potentially aggrieved group is a suspect class by determining whether they are likely or have historically suffered from discrimination. For example, blacks are judged to be a suspect class while whites are not.
This “gays are intolerant too” theme conflates rather than illuminates the reality of what is going on from a legal standpoint. But these examplese are also entirely irrelevant from a legal standpoint because the mere existence of intolerant gays who rat on upstanding citizens and cause them to lose their precious jobs does not justify the denial or, in the case of California, the revoking of constitutionally protected rights by the intolerant and/or ignorant majority. Debates and discussions over the validity of the Mormon faith or the rectitude of homosexual Americans IS TOTALLY BESIDE THE POINT and the focus on the conversation should reside on the legal rights that are being denied a subset of citizens in a very un-American way.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
No one ever said that free speech goes without consequences. If Raddon wanted to express such negativity toward a subset of our culture - gays and lesbians - through his support of Prop 8, then can you blame those who favor gay marriage for not viewing him with respect?? Because Raddon disrespected the rights of gays and lesbians; thus, gays and lesbians have expressed their disapproval of him. This man has plenty of money and for him to resign from his position that he held will not have much of a finacial impact on him. I don’t know how much his net worth is, but I’m sure it’s pretty high up there. Gays are not relegating themselves to McCarthyism. That was what the majority of CA just did through their enactment of a law that discriminates against gays and lesbians. Minorities should be protected, especially ones that don’t cause any harm toward others.
November 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
OK, then, I guess DG and James will quickly let us know that all the ill-will directed at conservatives for slamming the Dixie Chicks when they bad-mouthed the president overseas was incorrect, and that the Dixie Chicks should just leave country music, since pro-American feelings are strong in that community.