Prop 8 supporters using the PC police against each other

[Derleth]

I passed on the Prop 8 threads because CA is a long way, both physically and (pacem Missoula) psychologically, from MT. But this is schadenfreude with whipped cream and cherries. And here I thought the Conservative Republicans were against Political Correctness:

Other conservative groups that loudly backed Prop. 8 are being targeted as too extreme and off-putting by ProtectMarriage.com, which put the constitutional amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot and hopes to help persuade the state Supreme Court to uphold the measure.

“We represent the people who got things done, who got Prop. 8 passed,” said Andrew Pugno, general counsel for the Yes on Prop. 8 campaign. “An important part of defending Prop. 8 is eliminating arguments not helpful to our concerns.”

The PC police are out in force. You can’t even help them without having been in the Revolution since before the Revolution was cool:

Pugno, for example, persuaded the Supreme Court last week to bar the Campaign for California Families from intervening in the court case over the validity of Prop. 8 and the same-sex marriage ban.

“That organization represents the extreme fringe and is not representative of the coalition that got it passed,” Pugno said. “They didn’t even support Prop. 8 until sometime in the summer.”

Pugno was hating on gay marriage when hating on it was underground, maaan!

The people who are being PC-copped don’t like this one bit:

“I’m surprised, because we’ve litigated beside each other for 4 1/2 years” in the unsuccessful effort to keep the Supreme Court from overturning Prop. 22 same-sex marriage ban in 2000, said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, which represents the Campaign for California Families. “We have the same goal, which is to defend Prop. 8.”

They do have the same ultimate goal, but the PC police decree that the Revolution will not be embarrassed!