by El Capitan | July 18th, 2009
A year ago people discovered that the owner of the Manchester Hyatt had donated money to Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman (whatever those words might mean).
Because the boycott is ongoing, it was in the news today. The comments that the public left on that article were very interesting. Most of the comments came from the “Yes on 8″ crowd, and the majority of them followed the basic thesis of: “Liberals only like freedom when it goes there way, this boycott is a form of reverse discrimination and intolerance against a straight Christian.”
I am very interested in whether those people understand the difference between supporting a law which denies people a right, and a boycott, which is about money. I also wonder how many of the same people went up in arms when parts of the Baptist church tried to boycott Disney over gay issues. Now, I have no problem with partisanship. There’s nothing wrong with being blatantly for one thing and against the other thing. However, I do very much despise people who are partisan, but then complain that other people are acting in a partisan manner. If you think it’s ok for a business person to donate to a political cause because he has the right to express his opinion and support his beliefs… then how can you oppose other people who refuse to give that person money?