Tolerance is a one-sided issue

Since the election one of the top-ranked SC blogs has discovered The Gay Menace. To celebrate this discovery they have been offering cautionary tales of the horrors and depredations of roving, angry homofascists.

Threats, assaults, property damage- all are subject to legal sanction and anyone guilty of committing such acts ought to be given the mandated punishment. On that point all right-thinking individuals- straight or gay- surely agree.

Somehow, though, we have the feeling you'll never see this incident denounced as an example of reprehensible heterofascism over there:

VT Lawmaker’s Family Threatened Over Same-Sex Marriage Bill

Jim Burroway

November 20th, 2008

Vermont Senate Majority Leader John Campbell (D-Windsor) announced that when the state legislature convenes in January, he plans to introduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. That prompted a St. Albans woman to call the state house and threaten to blow up Sen. Campbell’s home.

Officer Dale Manning, who took the call, says that police do not take threats like this lightly and are investigating. The caller did not identify herself.

Sen. Campbell characterized the call as disturbing,saying, “This wasn’t directed just at me, but at my family, which is quite unfortunate.”

On July 1, 2000, Vermont became the first state in the union to offer civil unions.