The Volokh Conspiracy, a respected legal site on the Web, has fielded reports of harm. I suggest you check there. That’s where I first heard of this.

Notice my title for the post: “Chilling Effect.” No one has to be bashed in the head with a brick or have their car vandalized to be a victim. The chilling effect shuts people down. It may not show as obvious harm because it harms in a much more subtle way. By it’s very nature, a chilling effect is tough to diagnose in the short term, too. The results of it take time to grow.

My purpose in posting this was to alert Christians so that they would be ready. It is one thing to suffer for the faith, and another to suffer for the faith with the support of the faithful. No Christian in the early church suffered alone. Today, many Christians do. That’s why I am warning people that we should be ready for the fallout of this and future “outings.”

For instance, if Christians as a whole do not know about this, then it because much harder to plead one’s case before them when one loses a job through this kind of targeting. If people do know about it, then rallying to the aid of the one who lost the job may be more of a reflex.

Nor do you name anyone else harmed.

I think what IMonk said about this gives far better perspective.

“If Prop 8 supporters are Christians, and they are †˜outed they should rejoice that they are counted worthy to suffer for Christ, and should love their enemies. True?”

Regardless of whether the actual exact addresses are provided, it’s darned close enough so that one can narrow down the address with just one additional resource.