Executive Summary: The Price of Prop 8
Supporters of Proposition 8 in California have been subjected toharassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating,blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angryprotests, violence, at least one death threat, and grossexpressions of anti-religious bigotry. Arguments for same-sexmarriage are based fundamentally on the idea that limiting marriageto the union of husband and wife is a form of bigotry, irrationalprejudice, and even hatred against homosexual persons. As thisideology seeps into the culture more generally, individuals andinstitutions that support marriage as the unio...