When bullies lose arguments, they quickly turn to blows. Homosexual activists, having lost the public debate on same marriage, are now resorting to heavy-handed methods to intimidate and silence their opponents. 

On Election Day, when it became apparent that same sex marriage was going to suffer a historic loss in Maine, Jesse Connolly,  leader of the No on 1 campaign, said the following: “We will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.”

Many heard Connolly's remarks as a clear threat to the safety of those who had voted against gay marriage. Three days later, a death threat was phoned in to Mike Heath, the former Executive Director of the Christian Civic League who had led Maine's twenty-year long effort to head off gay marriage. The threat came from an out-of-state man who claimed to be "armed" "gay" and "had Heath for his next target."

The day after the election, Larry Grard, a longtime reporter for the Waterville Sentinel, committed the cardinal sin against the liberal establishment. He told the truth about the hatred which lurks just below the surface of the same sex marriage movement. As a result, Grard and his wife, a food columnist for the paper, were both fired.

A far more dangerous form of intimidation occurred when Assistant Attorney General Robert Perkins wrote a letter requesting copies of all political work that Don Mendell, a social worker at Nokomis High School, did on behalf of Question 1. The purported reason for the investigation was to see if Mendell is still fit to be a social worker after speaking out publically in defense of marriage and the family. In a complaint to the Office of Licensing and Registration, Mendell was accused of "having a long history of being unsupportive of GLTBQ issues."  The actions of the Office of the Maine Attorney General were intended to send a clear message to the people of Maine: resist homosexual marriage and you will lose your job.

But by far the most dangerous form of intimidation to date is the so-called "Prop 8 Map" compiled by radical homosexual activists in California. The map gives the name, street address, exact location, and dollar amount donated towards Proposition 8 for each individual who contributed to the campaign to preserve traditional marriage.  By disclosing the information publically, homosexual activists are enabling employers to fire employees who did not vote in a politically-correct manner. The map not only violates the cherished principle of the secret ballot, it exposes those who voted for traditional marriage to physical danger.

The defeat of gay marriage in Maine may represent the end of the attempt to obtain homosexual marriage by political means. Homosexual activists will increasingly return to the disruptive methods pioneered on the streets of New York and San Francisco, when the cause of homosexual rights was part of an emerging radical left-wing movement. 

We can expect a greater resort to coercion, civil disobedience, threats against employment, intimidation and violence - all of which homosexual radicals now view as their trump card for winning "gay" marriage.

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