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Remember hypocritical Maureen Mullarkey, the very successful New York City artist who has, for years, used the gay population as her muse? And then donated large amounts of money to the Yes on 8 campaign? And then freaked out when her donation was made public?

Well, she’s written an op-ed piece, “The New Blacklist,” for The Weekly Standard, explaining how hard it’s been for her to have her anti-gay support made public.

In November, the San Francisco Chronicle published the names and home addresses of everyone who donated money in support of California’s Proposition 8 marriage initiative. All available information, plus the amount donated, was broadcast. My name is on that list.

. . . I was up there now with Halliburton and Big Oil, a class enemy. The brownshirts came out in force. Within 24 hours, the “story” spread from one gay website to another . . .

Strange times we live in when it takes a ballot initiative to confirm the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Stranger still when endorsing that definition through the democratic process brings threats and reprisals.

. . . The religious note struck various chords. Rick0564 wrote: “If God makes us Gay, then please let us love one another through marriage. It’s what Jesus would do.” Tina K inquired: “If I believed that Catholics should not vote, and managed to get a proposition passed to that effect, would that be fair to you?”

Ah Tina, my opposition to same-sex marriage does not originate in the pew. However much sympathy, affection–indeed, love–I have for certain gay persons, “gay marriage” burlesques a primal institution rooted in nature. Marriage, as a unique bond between male and female, predates all politics and religious doctrines. And no one has to believe in God to see social anarchy, with children adrift in the wreckage, at the end of the same-sex marriage road.

Until now, donating to a cause did not open private citizens to a battery of invective and jackboot tactics. While celebrities sport their moral vanity with white ribbons, thousands of ordinary Americans who donated to Prop 8 are being targeted in a vile campaign of intimidation for having supported a measure that, in essence, ratified the crucial relation between marriage and childbearing. Some in California have lost their jobs over it; others worry about an unhinged stranger showing up at the door.

Who was it who predicted that if fascism ever came to the United States, it would come in the guise of liberal egalitarianism?

Ah, Maureen, your anti-gay sentiments aren’t rooted in reason, either. The only reason marriage is a unique bond between male and female is that gays aren’t allowed to get married! And, if marriage is a primal institution between men and women that is rooted in nature then how could the government sanctioning of gay marriage devalue “primal” straight marriage — nothing should be able to undo a “primal institution” if its existence is due to nature and not the laws of man.

And, Maureen, just a reminder. Making public the names of the people who donated to the Yes on 8 campaign is legal and mandatory, as it is for all people who donate to all campaigns. Should that law have been broken to protect donors’ bigotry? .

Mullarkey has much more in common with Peter LaBarbera than I ever thought a presumed sophisticated New York artist ever could. Read the entire piece over at The Weekly Standard “The New Blacklist.”