Much has been written (http://www.slate.com/id/2241551/pagenum/all/#p2, for example) on the idiocy of the Supreme Court's decision to bar televising the court proceedings of the current legal challenge to Prop 8. What I find ironic is that one of the reasons that propopents of banning gay marriage cite is a fear of retribution. Apparently, they are afraid that if they are seen online or on TV as promoting hate (for, honestly, that's all it is), there would be public reprisals. Of what sort? Hate mail? A strong scolding in a supermarket by a fellow shopper? A beating-to-death in Wyoming?
Perhaps when making this argument such bigots should take into account all the harrassment+ gays have been subjected to for years from those who would support Prop 8. This is on par with someone testifying in favor of Jim Crow and then pushing to have their names removed from the newspaper article about such a case. Or Brown v Board of Ed. Honestly, your political predecessors lynched people for their sexual choices, and now you're afraid of harrassment for opposing such choices in a trial? Have you no sense of shame, let alone irony?
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