Friday, December 30, 2005

KnowThyNeighbor.org encouraging harassment of petition signatories

This is a spooky website of a Massachusetts pro-gay marriage organization that lists the name and address of those people who signed a petition to end gay marriage in the Bay State. The searchable database is purportedly to be used for determining whether a signature was fraudulently obtained, it also has a potential dual use of harassing those who did.

While I'm sure that this list was legally obtained, to list the address of the signatory smacks of illicit intent. Indeed, according to an article in The Globe, by week's end, Tom Lang, spokesman for KnowThyNeighbor.org, will be "post[ing] the signers' political party affiliation by weeks' end, and later, other data such as home sale prices."

That information is completely irrelevant in the determination of fraud and confirms to me that the list is nothing more than a tool similar to those used by extremist anti-abortion websites. Personally, I generally support at least civil unions with all the rights afforded to those who are married. However, I cannot support what KnowThyNeighbor is doing.

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