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Theater Director Forced Out Over Prop 8
BillK posted this from the Los Angeles Times:
Sacramento theater director resigns in Prop. 8 aftermath
By Mike Boehm
Scott Eckern, the Sacramento theater director whose political donation in support of California’s Prop. 8 ban on same-sex marriage turned into a lightning rod in the debate over gay rights, resigned Wednesday, saying he wanted to protect the California Musical Theatre, his artistic home since 1984, from further controversy.
Word of Eckern’s $1,000 donation — publicly reported under state elections law — spread rapidly on the Internet last week, and Eckern drew criticism from some prominent stage artists, including Tony Award-winning composer Marc Shaiman (”Hairspray”) and Jeff Whitty, the “Avenue Q” librettist.
“I am disappointed that my personal convictions have cost me the opportunity to do what I love the most,” Eckern, the nonprofit stage company’s artistic director since 2003, said in a written statement. By resigning, he said he hoped to “help the healing in the local theatergoing and creative community.” …
As BillK says: Lest you forget how chilling this is, anyone not self-employed may now find themselves out of a job because of the blanks you have to fill out listing your position and your employer for almost any political donation.
So here’s how this game is played:
1) Left sees you have an employee that donated to the RNC (or towards support of say an anti-abortion or anti-union proposition)
2) Left calls for a boycott until said “right wing hate monger” is gone
3) “Right wing hate monger” becomes unemployed, and even if they sue for wrongful termination that will take years to go through the courts, will be hard to prove and generally will end up being cheaper for the company in question than the lost business in heavily left-wing areas like the coasts, and, increasingly, much of the rest of the country.
You know, not unlike what I’m sure local Democrats are already doing to “Joe the Plumber’s” employer.
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Discrimination is against the law but REVERSE DISCRIMINATION is OKY DOKY. Wow…only in America!! I remember it use to be the WILL of the PEOPLE…..Now its’s the willingness of the perverted few who run roughshod over the rest of us. THATS RIGHT ……GOD SAID ADAM & EVE NOT ADAM & STEVE!!! Personally I dont give a sh!t what you do behind closed doors with each other but your rights stop at the tip of my nose and ALL of my property!! I know why you don’t protest the Black and Latino Churchs and against those same people who voted against your vile lifestyle. When the drive-bys stopped…..you all wouldn’t have enought protesters left to do a presentation of “IT’S RAINING MENS”.
Maybe folks should boycott the theater.
It’s a shame he didn’t have the foresight to donate under an assumed, obviously false name, address, title, employer, etc. If he had, he wouldn’t be in this position today.
Well, if this catches on then we will have a lot more self-employed people.
America’s strength is not in big business (most of which are panhandling right now) but in small business. More small business means a lot of benefits politically, most notably putting the voter closer to the tax policies of the country.
In short, less Obambi voters - more conservative voters. It’s an open question whether we should support this idiocy because the long term result is favorable.
It’s exciting to be a conservative - we see good things everywhere!
Where is the line you stand in to become a “RICH” conservative? I am not rich by no means. As a matter of fact, I’m a UNEMPLOYED conservative but I’m not blaming the Liberals and bitchin’ about it in their face!! Things will get better….I survived the aftermath of hatred towards Vietnam Veterans and anyone who served during that era. I believe…….
“I am disappointed that my personal convictions have cost me the opportunity to do what I love the most,” Eckern, the nonprofit stage company’s artistic director since 2003, said in a written statement.
Mr. Eckern was a coward and that’s what cost him opportunity. He also told those animals that they can win with intimidation.
Basic Life 101: Living things swim upstream and the dead float down.
Stand or fall.
As I recall this whole thing with Proposition 8 began with judges deciding that gay marriage should be legal, trumping an even earlier proposition that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. So now they’re protesting yet again because the majority overruled them again? When does it end?
3) “Right wing hate monger” becomes unemployed…..
I think we’re already at that point; too many people are afraid to speak their mind and be labeled racist/hate monger by the hysterical left, as they could end either unemployed or with a career at a dead end.
As I have said before, if you’re an employer, and have to trim the fat, make sure you know who the obama voters were, and can them first. Most of them are lazy and clueless, as if voting for obama didn’t define that in the first place anyway.
They are currentlly calling for a boycott of a large hotel chain, they have also made an online blacklist, these people are terrible - have they lost their minds?
What happened to live and let live, California voted, accept it and move on, why damage people’s reputation and business simply because they have religious believes?
Most ironic of all, the website they have made has a picture of a tombstone with a concentration camp memorial, they also equate prop 8 with hate, I suppose they fail to see how hateful they are being themselves..
Bullseye! GuppyNblue hit the nail on the head. It’s time to stand up, talk back, defend yourself. Whimpering and caving-in doesn’t help the individual or the cause. Enough with the falling on your sword B.S. … “for the good of the theater” (or whatever). You hit me, I hit back harder.
This is only the beginning. Look for more of this nonsense when the thug messiah takes office. These people are not fit to govern themselves—–even as their “thug messiah” “rules”. I’ll be surprised if we make it four years.
Obama Christ…Superstar…Are you really who you say you are???
Behold the left, unflinching in shoving a perversion down everyone else’s throat.
They not only wish to circumvent the voters, they wish to change religious doctrine.
” We wanna have a church wedding, with the states blessing”
Amazing how they suddenly forget the separation thing,
But why bother reasoning with them, with them its always in one queer and out the other.
“…aided and abetted by their stalwart defender, Governor Schwarzenfagger…”
DEZ; …..”But why bother reasoning with them, with them its always in one queer and out the other…..”
Too funny, DEZ. But I overheard someone at the last gay wedding say that the two were made for each other. The names of the two were, Michael Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmichael.
That’s funny….except that God didn’t give them their names…the parts God gave them weren’t made for each other at all….how obtuse do these people want the world to be in order to hide that?
Just look at Zimbabwe after we built Rhodesia.
By the way, what I was suggesting would happen above is already happening:
I’ve posted a more complete entry about this here:
http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....ent-124340
I am utterly amazed at the righteous indignation of these people. Only when things promote or serve their purpose are they satisfied. I mean they can not take no for an answer there is only one way to the solution of this problem and it seems to be the way they think. Screw what the majority of Californians said on this issue. If they want the state to recognize this abomination why don’t they relinquish their U.S. citizenship & find some super-liberal European country that will recognize their so-called marriage and they can live there happily ever after. Then they will be able to walk down the street “Out, Loud, Gay, & Proud”. Oh yeah they do that now, sorry!
paulswigert , no need to go to all that trouble.
They can simply move to Massachusetts or Connecticut.
In case you weren’t aware, from the Boston Globe:
Once again via a decision by the courts, not the people.
Moral equivalence gone mad. I’m afraid the outcome will be the same as Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible—for the behavior is frighteningly similar.