Prop. 8 backer questioned about child sex comment

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

A proponent of California's same-sex marriage ban warned voters in a letter during the 2008 campaign that gay rights activists would try to legalize sex with children if same-sex couples had the right to wed, according to evidence presented Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the measure.

San Francisco resident Hak-Shing William Tam, a defendant in the lawsuit, discussed the letter to Chinese-Americans church groups during a legal deposition taped last month.

... "On their agenda list is: legalize having sex with children," states the letter, which also cautioned that "other states would fall into Satan's hands" if gays weren't stopped from marrying in California.

... During his deposition, Tam explained that he based his views on personal experience and a Web site that described a 1972 meeting of gay rights activists.

... Tam last week asked the judge hearing the case to remove him as a defendant because he feared the trial would generate publicity that could endanger him and his family.

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[Divine Discontent]

2. and I heard all the people like him are yellow commies and need locked up in camps....

:sarcasm:

[hughee99]

3. He sent a letter to his CHURCH group about this?

Is there any group of people more associated with sex with children then the church? (Granted, I don't know if it's a Catholic church or not).

[mrcheerful]

6. It isn't child predators tend to seek employment in area's that brings them into

contact with young people. Church, school, Boy scouts, youth advisers etc etc have had a higher numbers of child predators then any other group.

[Downwinder]

4. I think he is projecting. Sure that he isn't a pedophile? n/t

[JackInGreen]

9. Hey hey,

Lets not insult the pedophiles by comparing to him.

[sakabatou]

5. Appeals to fear and emotion are powerful

But they're stupid as well.

[mrbarber]

7. Well, it looks like the cowardly little worm insists on causing publicity..

until he's called on his bigotry, in which case he whines and pretends he and his family will be in danger, which is a laugh.

Cowardly, disgusting pig of a human, too afraid and yellow to stand behind his hateful convictions. Disgusting subhuman scum.

[SoapBox]

8. Prop. 8 Trial Tracker blog link

...my apologies if some have seen this already (I posted it to another Prop. 8 article), but I think it important to get people reading about this trial...SINCE our (so-called) Supreme Court won't let it be shown.

If you are interested, there is a daily blog going on:

http://prop8trialtracker.com /

Every decent American should be sickened by the crap that the supporters of Prop. 8
say and what they did (and continue to do.)

Please share the link with friends.

[Tempest]

10. Your link is broken

Here's a replacement:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/14/us/AP-US-Gay-Marriage-Trial.html

[Odin2005]

11. "Gay = Pedo" is typical homophobe rhetoric.

[TrogL]

12. Let's see the website

Or at least a screen cap or maybe the wayback engine has it.

It'll probably just rehashed ex-gay stuff.

http://members.shaw.ca/trogl/orient.html