How the fight against Prop 8 is like the Civil Rights movement:

Two people with different views can have a civil discussion. We do not need scorched earth policies and tactics.

Do we have a democracy, or do we have this mob tyranny, where we use violence to destroy our opponents?

If those rioting on behalf of homosexuals in California are in a civil rights battle like the one fought against Jim Crow in the south, then those rioting are the KKK not Martin Luther King.

Let me be clear. Not all of those doing violence and threatening supporters are homosexuals. In fact, it would not surprise me if most of them weren't. They are thugs, and wish to destroy what America means while fully believing that they are protecting American ideals. Just like the KKK.

These thugs use the tactics of the KKK, for the same purpose of the KKK: use violence to silence their opponents and make them live in fear so that the KKK could dominate the political and cultural discussion.

On the other hand, Martin Luther King believed in non-violent protest: He believed that the morality of the church should bring equality to the races. Read his writings.

It sickens me that the reports I read and see seem to equate these thugs that are rioting in Cali with the noble path King chose. You see King was not perfect, but he was civil.

So, what is the response of the christian to be? I think that we should remember the tenets of our faith. We must not give in to hate. And remember: just because our love has been labeled hate doesn't make it hate.

In other words, we must not allow fear to control us, to let others determine and control our words and conversation. Our response must be courage. We need to remember the courage of those who fought with Martin Luther King. They fought by being non-violent as the police beat them. They fought by praying and writing from the Birmingham jail.

Yes, this is just like the civil rights fight of the last century, except this is about christian rights.