Comments on: Religious Division – Religously Motivated Crimes? – Romney, Palin, Pawlenty – and more… http://www.article6blog.com/2009/10/30/religious-division-religously-motivated-crimes-romney-palin-pawlenty-and-more/ "Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by a Mormon, an Evangelical, and an Orthodox Christian" Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: CarlH http://www.article6blog.com/2009/10/30/religious-division-religously-motivated-crimes-romney-palin-pawlenty-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-13399 CarlH Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:55:03 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/?p=1553#comment-13399 In what is mostly a catalog with full citations of sources (and helpful, in that respect) of the nature and extent of the intimidation tactics used by some opponents of California's Proposition 8 against its supporters before, but especially after, its passage last November, Thomas N. Messner's paper published October 22, 2009 by <em>The Heritage Foundation</em>, "<a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/upload/bg_2328-3.pdf" rel="nofollow">The Price of Prop 8</a>," points, at least in passing, to the issues alluded to in the items John posted under the heading "How Long Before . . . " above (including limitations on religious expression including evangelization and proselytizing, hate crimes, and election contribution disclosure laws). The paper also includes citations (at fn. 111) to condemnations of some of the tactics by "several" anti-Prop 8 activists. The link above is to a .pdf version of the paper because it includes a sidebar of "Talking Points"--not included in the <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Reshttp://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/upload/bg_2328-3.pdfearch/Family/bg2328.cfm" rel="nofollow">webpage version</a>--which (in my view at least) deserve some extended development that the article itself doesn't provide. In what is mostly a catalog with full citations of sources (and helpful, in that respect) of the nature and extent of the intimidation tactics used by some opponents of California’s Proposition 8 against its supporters before, but especially after, its passage last November, Thomas N. Messner’s paper published October 22, 2009 by The Heritage Foundation, “The Price of Prop 8,” points, at least in passing, to the issues alluded to in the items John posted under the heading “How Long Before . . . ” above (including limitations on religious expression including evangelization and proselytizing, hate crimes, and election contribution disclosure laws). The paper also includes citations (at fn. 111) to condemnations of some of the tactics by “several” anti-Prop 8 activists.

The link above is to a .pdf version of the paper because it includes a sidebar of “Talking Points”–not included in the webpage version–which (in my view at least) deserve some extended development that the article itself doesn’t provide.

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