Playing "Spot the Idiots."

A fourteen year old girl dares - dares! - to defend traditional marriage and the tolerant forces of the Enlightenment immediately call for her death:

If I ever see this girl, I will kill her. That’s a promise.”

Wake up America. The voices that preach tolerance are turning violent. This time the target is an innocent young girl, Sarah Crank, who testified before the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in support of traditional marriage.

The calm, truthful testimony of a 14-year-old minor – without profanity or harsh language – generated vulgar attacks, threats of violence and even death wishes divulged on numerous pro-homosexual websites, blogs, and comment entries. In fact, pro-homosexual activists unleashed a campaign of harassment against the Maryland family, including a call to have the mother’s parental rights revoked for simply encouraging her daughter to defend the reality of marriage between one man and one woman.

Violent Reactions

“And now everyone knows her name, so hopefully she will feel what its like to be harassed and bullied…” reads a comment posted on LGBTQNation.com

From YouTube: “My god I hate people like this. Most (not all) Americans are [expletive] retards. If I ever see this girl, I will kill her. That’s a promise.”

Other entries: “Her parents should be exterminated.”

“The [sic] is why abortion must stay legal – to prevent little bigots like this from being Born…”

“Kill this child and his [sic] parent, for my 11 birthday would be a wonderful gift, thanks.”

“Her belief is hurting other people. I will attack her as much as I please.”

“Parents like hers should be sterilized…”

Mark Shea also points to this example of a 16 year old atheist who blew the whistle on a "school prayer" banner long-ensconced on the walls of a high school auditorium. Apparently, although we aren't told what was said, the angry reaction prompted her to get a police escort for some period of time. Given human nature and what passes for public discourse in this era, we can probably write out what is being said by cutting and pasting from atheist/homosexual hate screeds against theists.

Needless to say, if there was anything said similar to what was said by against the 14 year old traditional marriage supporter, shame on them. From the article, I couldn't see anything like that, albeit, perhaps, calling the girl "evil" is over the top, but even that statement is qualified by the observation that "it's not her fault." What I saw was speech well within the bounds of civil discourse as compared to the steaming pile of hate that I can read in any number of comment threads on liberal/homosexual sites.

The amazing thing to me is how this banner has managed to remain in place for the last 60 years. One would have thought that by now the principle that prayers are not permitted in schools would have reached every corner of this great "naked public square" we call America. Of course, one answer is that no one really saw this as a prayer; rather it was probably understood as being a motto, a set of pious platitudes, much like "In God we Trust."