Why should I be targeted for expressing my opinion in a country where freedom of speech is a hallmark, is a constitutional right?

That was a question asked by a man being interviewed on KPIX-TV last night. He was listed on a website which exposes people who donated to the "Yes on 8" campaign, antigayblacklist.com. It's funny that he was so concerned about his constitutional rights, but not mine.

To those who are so disturbed at the backlash against those who supported Prop 8, all I can say is "we took a page from your playbook." Consider:

1. The "Yes on 8" campaign contacted donors to the "No on 8" campaign, demanding a similar donation for their side or face exposure and blacklisting.

2. Operatives from the "Yes on 8" campaign hacked the "No on 8" website, effectively stopping donations for a time. God only knows what other damage they did.

3. The "Yes on 8" campaign spread lies about the effect of gay marriage on children and schools. Lies that were debunked over and over, but they kept spreading them. It's funny how "my children" was all you heard out of these people before the campaign. Now it's all about "freedom of speech."

4. Anti-gay scum have protested gay events for years. Go to any gay pride festival, parade, or any other event, and you will find protesters there.

5. Fred Phelps and his crew of inbreds protest at funerals of gay men who died of AIDS, of gay men who didn't die of AIDS, of people who had a gay 3rd cousin, of people who lived next to gay people, of the bank teller who changed a gay's twenty, of someone who ever said "hello" to a gay person, etc etc.

6. And finally, here's a list of just a few of the companies that have been targeted for boycotts by the anti-gay crowd. In most cases, their only offense was offering domestic partner benefits, or having sexual orientation in their non-discrimination policy. Hallmark Cards was targeted for offering same sex wedding cards (not something you are going to see in a typical Walgreens), and Ford Motor Company was targeted for advertising in gay publications. Where's your defense of "freedom of speech" when the shoe is on the other foot? Here's the list:

7-11
AARP
Abercrombie & Fitch
ABC
Adolph Coors
Aetna
Allstate
Amazon.com
American Airlines
American Express
American Red Cross
Anheuser-Busch
Apple
AT&T
Avon
B. Dalton Booksellers
Bank of America
Bausch & Lomb
Bayer
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
Best Buy
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
Blockbuster
Borders Books
Bristol Myers Squibb
Campbell Soup
Capital One
Catholic Charities of San Francisco
CBS
Cigna
Cisco
Citigroup
Clorox
Continental Airlines
Countrywide
Cox Communcations
Charles Schwab
Chevron
Coca-Cola
Colgate-Palmolive
Comerica
Costco
Crest
Dallas Morning News
Dell
Delta Airlines
Disney Land
Disney World
Dole
Dow Chemical
Eastman Kodak
EBay
Eli Lilly
Estee Lauder
Fannie Mae
Federated Department Stores
Ford Foundation
Ford Motor Company
Gap
General Electric
General Mills
General Motors
Gillette
GNC
Goodrich Tires
Goodwill Industries
Google
H&R Block
Hallmark Cards
Hallmark Entertainment
Harley-Davidson
HBO
Heineken
Hewlett-Packard
Hilton Hotels
Hyatt Hotels
IBM
Intel
John Hancock
Johnson & Johnson
JP Morgan Chase
Kinko's
Kraft
Levi Strauss
Lexmark
Liz Claiborne
Loews
Lucent
March of Dimes
Marriott
McDonalds
McGraw Hill
Meals on Wheels
Metlife
Miami Herald
Microsoft
Miller Brewing
Monsanto
Motorola
MSNBC
MTV
Nabisco
National Geographic
Nationwide Insurance
NBC
New York Times
Newsday
Nextel
Nike
Nokia
Nordstrom
Northwest Airlines
NPR
Orient-Express Hotels
Qwest
Pennzoil-Quaker State
Philip Morris
Phizer
Pillsbury
Pitney Bowes
Procter & Gamble
Progressive Insurance
Prudential
Reebok
RJ Reynolds
San Francisco 49's
San Francisco Chronicle
Sara Lee
Seagram
Sears
Seattle Times
Shell Oil Company
Southwest Airlines
Starbucks
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Target
Texas Instruments
Timberland
Time Warner
United Airlines
Universal Studios
United Way
Verizon
Viacom
Volkswagen
Walt Disney Co.
WAMU
Washington Post
Wells Fargo
Wyndham Hotels
Xerox