No Recollection

Today, the Mayor Pro-Tem clarified her part in the bruhaha about the call for an ongoing boycott of businesses, church members, and individuals who made financial contributions to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign.

After the election, according to the MP-T, it was an emotional time, so the MP-T attended a rally, and she did speak. Oddly, she did not remember one short week later what she said at the rally when she was confronted about it at a city council meeting. However, she adamantly denied that she read from a list of names, which is why she denied having encouraged the boycott.

That is, perhaps, the only true statement she's made: she did not read the list of names.

According to the local newspaper, news footage shows [the Mayor Pro-Tem] holding a microphone during the rally and saying, “So when you see a business on that list, you need to not utilize that business.” After her statement, another person actually read the list of names, so those in attendance would know which businesses, churches, and individuals not to "utilize." In this instance, not utilizing the business is another way of saying boycott without using the b word!

Here we go again with the old my perception is my reality justification, even when the news footage clearly shows that her recollection is no one else's reality. Everyone is up in arms about the situation, especially since all employees of a business owner who contributed to the Yes on 8 campaign are targeted, along with the business. Ditto for the churches, as well as all members of the church.

Didn't Obama make it clear that a parishoner can sit in the pew for 20 years and NOT be part of what comes from the pulpit?

As this pot continues to boil, Dec. 10 looms as the day the pot could boil over. Again, this Valley voted 14% to sustain the gay marriage ban, which means that approximately 85% of this Valley's voters marked their ballots "no" in favor of gay marriage. The margin between sustaining the ban and overturning it was 4% across the state, which means that almost as many voters supported gay marriage as voted against it, but the voters in the state of CA are not ready to wholeheartedly support gay marriage.

The CA Supreme Court's decision last May over-turned the last statewide vote against gay marriage and led to the wave of 1500 gay marriages in this area alone. However, the Supreme Court decision did not change the fact that the majority of CA citizens voted against gay marriage then -- and now. Proponents of gay marriage have returned to the CA Supreme Court and expect the court to again rule in favor of gay marriage, but the aggressive activism called for by the Mayor Pro-Tem continues across the Valley.