Proposition 8 approved

The great news of Election Day 2008 is that California voters passed Proposition 8 amending the state constitution to say that marriage in California shall be between a man and a woman. This cancels the revolutionary holding by a state court last spring that the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision of “equal protection under the law” requires that individuals of the same sex be allowed to “marry” each other. Not only that, but the court said that homosexual couples from other states could “marry” in California, even if their own states did not allow such “marriages.” In the few months since this evil decision, Californai had become the new mecca for the most radical social innovation in the history of mankind.

Thank God for the success of Prop. 8. Everyone who worked for the passage of the referendum is a hero as far as I’m concerned.

I had heard that exit polls showed that a majority of white voters opposed the Proposition, while a majority of Hispanics and blacks supported it. But, as Neil P. explains, it was blacks who made the difference:

According to Byron York at the corner, blacks supported the same-sex marriage ban 70-30! Those family values Hispanics supported it by a whopping 51-49. (“Anglos” were against it.)

This strikes me as curious given that the black family is more dysfunctional than the Hispanic family, from what I’ve read.

That 70 percent Yes vote by blacks reminds of when I went to see the wretched homosexual propaganda movie “In & Out” about ten years ago, because it had been recommended by Michael Medved as a “conservative” movie, and I was foolish enough to believe him. The audience in the theater, a theater that normally had a fair number of blacks among its patrons, was 100 percent white at the showing of the movie I attended. Blacks are just not interested in the homosexual thing.

Warning to na�ve conservatives: this does not mean that we can depend on “socially conservative” minorities to save our culture. We, the white majority, have to save our culture. Minority individuals may be of help, but the minority groups as a whole are on the left and will not be on our side.

As for Medved, the experience made me realize how superficial was his claim to be a “conservative” critic of “liberal” movies. His main gripe was with movies that were alienating, anti-religion, anti-American. But if a movie was—or seemed—wholesome he automatically approved of it. This made him a sucker for films with a subversive message but a nice, “middle American” surface. Such as In and Out.

I wrote him a brutally critical letter about it, and not long afterward he announced his departure from movie reviewing for conservative punditry. I like to imagine that my letter made him realize that he was too close to the liberal cultural zeitgeist to criticize it.

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Jonathan W. writes:

I have been pondering the results of the elections most of the day, and one thing I realized after viewing many of my liberal friends’ gmail status messages is that most liberals don’t appreciate the paradox that results from their own ideology. In California, white voters rejected Proposition 8 (constitutional ban on gay marriage), while black and Hispanic voters approved it. In essence, third world nonwhite peoples tend to be much less “tolerant” (in the way liberals mean), and therefore, mass importation of millions of third world immigrants will have a negative effect on the liberals’ ability to create their utopian society. Jewish liberals, being among the worst offenders in their inability to appreciate the negative consequences to themselves of their own policies, do not seem to realize or care that a very large percentage of Hispanic immigrants harbor anti-Semitic and anti-Israel beliefs.

Every once in a while, this contradiction “mugs” liberals, but they seem to dismiss it after a very cursory thought process. For example, liberals always like to argue that we cannot judge another culture, and that all cultures are equal. However, when Islamic countries forcibly circumsize women or execute homosexuals, they are never able reconcile their competing beliefs of not judging cultures and also of protecting the rights and dignity of minorities. Liberals like to think that blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, and other “oppressed” nonwhite peoples are their permanent allies. It is fairly clear to me, however, that the minorities only keep up this facade until there are enough of them to outnumber the white majority. Once that occurs, it is back to unadulterated tribalism. And white liberals will not be members of this tribe, no matter how much they would like to be.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 05, 2008 10:35 PM | Send