Whether 70 percent of black voters actually voted for Proposition 8 is irrelevant here, since people have come to accept the 70-percent figure as fact.

After Proposition 8 passed, did gay rights activists call for lynchings? Did they denounce blacks as “ignorant”?

Surely they must have, given the death threats sent to a Christian pizzeria owner in a small Midwestern town saying she wouldn’t cater a gay wedding (but would still serve every customer in her restaurant, gay or straight). Since banning gay marriage is more exponentially more significant than declining to cater a gay wedding, the proportional response should have been repealing the Fifteenth Amendment.

On a related note: Do pizzerias actually cater weddings, gay or straight?