Article in the Sacramento Bee today about how businesses that supported prop-8 are now feeling the pain in the cash register as gays and their supporters take their business elsewhere. This is, of course, not all that surprising to anyone reading this, OpenSalon folks tend to be rather intelligent. What is surprising to me is how surprising it is to some of the targeted businesses.

Yes, you read that right, business gave money to a campaign that took the right to marry away from a group of people, and now those business are STUNNED that that group of people are not going to give them anymore money.  Am I the only one who’s thinking “Duh” here?

I’m confess to being quite stunned at the amount of  ignorance shown by these people. When I was a kid. My parent would constantly tell me to put myself in the place of the other person,

“Of course Tammy’s mad at you! You called her fatty! How would you feel if someone called you fatty?”

 “Um, I’d be mad, I guess”.

“OK then”.

I guess I just had really awesome parents, obviously these guys were never given such an exercise. (And for the record, Tammy, I’m sorry.)

Boycotting business whose policies you do not agree with is long tradition in American life. I honestly don’t see why any business that gave money to Prop 8 thinks is should be immune from it. I’ll bet if a business hung a sign on it’s door that said “No Christians”, the same bunch would picketing the place in a heartbeat.

I think the statement to gets the award for most Disingenuous Statement is this one:

"If this had gone the other way, I can't imagine the backlash if people protested and called the other side names," said Purves.

Um, yeah, because no one has ever called a gay person a bad name, right? No Christian has ever protested at the wedding of a gay couple, or at the funeral of a gay person, right? No Christian has ever told a gay person they were going to burn in hell for being gay, right?

Yeesh.