Gay Extremists Attack Christian Group in San Francisco

California's cultural confrontation over gay marriage escalated Friday night in San Francisco's Castro District, as a group Christian missionaries were attacked by a homosexual mob.

KTVU has the story:

In San Francisco's Castro District, people on both sides of the same-sex marriage controversy confronted each other on Friday night, as police tried to keep the peace. Proposition 8 passed in a close vote and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Members of the gay community said that almost every Friday night, a Christian group meets at the corner of Castro and 18th Streets. They try to convert gays and lesbians into a straight lifestyle.

This Friday night, the message didn't go over well. Some gays and lesbians reacted by trying to chase the group out of the Castro.

"Their rights were respected," said Joe Schmitz, an opponent of Prop 8. "They got a chance to go ahead and pray on the sidewalk and I had the opportunity to express my freedom of speech which is telling them to get out of my neighborhood."

San Francisco Police officers in riot gear formed a line and escorted the religious group into a van to safely get them out of the area.

Members of the gay community insisted that their reaction to the Christian group was spontaneous. "It was not an organized thing. We're tired of it. It's not religious. It's not a racial thing. It's about hate. We're trying to send a message across the world that we're standing up and we don't want this to go on anymore," said Adam Quintero.

This is exactly the kind escalation I've been predicting in my commentaries on the Yes on 8 protests. The activist backlash will be marked by increasing belligerence, until otherise sympathetic heterosexual communities say, "enough is enough ... you people are freaking Stalinists!"

Gay marriage bloggers are noticing, for example, this guy:

I'm really worried about where this is heading. Somebody is going to get killed and we're all going to lose. I'm pissed, we're all f**king pissed, but this is going to a bad place. And I say that knowing that if I had been in the Castro on Friday night, I probably would have been right there in it. We've got the moral upper hand in this fight and every day more and more people see that. Be we have GOT to keep these things peaceful. Yell, fuck yeah, YELL. But don't touch. Don't hit. Don't throw. Please.

Pam Spaulding's also warning about the increasing mob rule of the movement, which is funny, because her blog is one of the biggest instigators of the unrest.