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How should one protest Prop 8?

This recent SacBee article covers a specific example of the Prop. 8 backlash (e.g. boycotts, angry emails and letters, picketing, harassment) that has been going on, more or less, since November all over California.

The article covers the treatment Leatherby's Family Creamery, in Sacramento, has been receiving after their $20,000 donation to Yes on 8 was made public. The article hits especially home for me because the Leatherby's employed me for the better half of my high school years so I could save enough money to go to college.

This situation highlights an issue I've been trying to figure out since the shocking results came out that Prop. 8 had passed: How should one go about protesting Prop. 8? Is boycotting an establishment because its owners supported Prop. 8 really an effective way of pushing the gay marriage agenda?

On the one hand, I certainly don't want my money being used to support another anti-gay marriage campaign. But on the other hand, it seems wrong to punish someone for expressing their beliefs. Further, this tactic seems counterproductive if the goal is to gain support for the gay marriage cause. Won't boycotting and protesting only lead to further polarization of the two sides making it harder to convince people that gay marriage really isn't a scary thing?

Basically what I'm asking is, is it wrong for me to keep going to Leatherby's when I'm back in Sacramento? Because they make some pretty damn good ice cream.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).