I've heard all of the ludicrous talking points and self-victimizing rhetoric, but Frank Schubert's
latest take on the Proposition 8 legal case might be the biggest bout
of sore-loserdom I'm ever witnessed from an anti-LGBT commentator.
In an article that originated at the Public Discourse (a project of
the conservative Witherspoon Institute) and has made its way around the
conservative media space, the National Organization For Marriage
political director and Prop 8 campaign mastermind stops trying to beat
his opponents in the school of thought. Instead, Schubert pushes a new
meme claiming that those of us on the right side of history "cheated"
people like him. Here's a snippet:
The Cheaters Won
It’s only natural for people to want to know how I feel about the outcome, not only from a policy perspective but also from a personal perspective. After all, I put my heart into managing (and winning) the Prop 8 campaign in 2008, and since then have spent much of my professional career working on preserving marriage throughout the nation.
Here’s how I feel.
I feel like we were cheated. Just like I felt as a kid watching the bad guy put a sleeper hold on his opponent, or hitting him below the belt or with the brass knuckles while the referee had his back turned, so have the legal system and politicians cold-cocked the people of California—seven million of whom went to the polls to lawfully enact Prop 8. Only this time, I realize there’s not likely to be a rematch. The cheaters won.
I feel like the rule of law has been shredded, and conniving politicians have been rewarded for ignoring their sworn oath of office. Public confidence in the judicial system has been dealt a severe blow. Supporters of same-sex “marriage” may be happy with the result today, but hold on until the tables are turned and a conservative governor and attorney general refuse to defend a law they don’t personally support, and there’s nobody left with standing to defend it. The seeds of that action will have been sown by leftist politicians like Brown, Harris, and Schwarzenegger.
