I think Mark Shea’s favorite expression for homosexual activists bullying their opponents is particularly appropriate after viewing footage of a mob in San Francisco Friday night. According to KTVU-TV, a group of Christians who engage in street evangelism each Friday night was chased out of the Castro district for daring to set foot on gay turf after the defeat of Proposition 8:

In San Francisco’s Castro District, people on both sides of the same-sex marriage controversy confronted each other on Friday night, as police tried to keep the peace. Proposition 8 passed in a close vote and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Members of the gay community said that almost every Friday night, a Christian group meets at the corner of Castro and 18th Streets. They try to convert gays and lesbians into a straight lifestyle.

This Friday night, the message didn’t go over well. Some gays and lesbians reacted by trying to chase the group out of the Castro.

“Their rights were respected,” said Joe Schmitz, an opponent of Prop 8. “They got a chance to go ahead and pray on the sidewalk and I had the opportunity to express my freedom of speech which is telling them to get out of my neighborhood.”

San Francisco Police officers in riot gear formed a line and escorted the religious group into a van to safely get them out of the area.

Members of the gay community insisted that their reaction to the Christian group was spontaneous. “It was not an organized thing. We’re tired of it. It’s not religious. It’s not a racial thing. It’s about hate. We’re trying to send a message across the world that we’re standing up and we don’t want this to go on anymore,” said Adam Quintero.

Check out the accompanying video at the site. (Warning: strong obscene language.) Quintero is quite correct–it is about hate. Hatred of the Christian faith, hatred of anyone who would dare suggest that there is anything wrong with homosexuality, hatred of anyone who would stand in the way of gays getting what they want is all over this little demonstration. In some quarters (by no means all, by the way) in the gay community, the defeat of Proposition 8 seems to have been taken as permission for them to unleash a hate that seems all-consuming. Unfortunately for them, if incidents like this and the recent attacks on churches continue, it will do nothing but doom their cause.

(Hat tip: Jim.)

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