Monday, November 10, 2008
Prop. 8: Yup, It was the Catholics
Politics / Religion Chris Thompson — Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Looks like the Roman Catholic Church played a more important role in banning gay marriage than previously thought. During the campaign, everyone was struck by how much money the Mormon church was dumping into the Yes on 8 coffers, but the Chron reports that it was San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer who personally recruited the Mormons to the effort. Niederauer had been bishop of the Salt Lake City diocese for 11 years, and he tapped his Mormon contacts when the time came to slap the homos around. Of course, as the story points out, the No on 8 campaign made its share of stupid mistakes, downplaying gays and lesbians, as if they weren't front and center in this whole conversation. In addition, Prop. 8 opponents instructed their volunteers to steer clear of talking about children when chatting up voters, but it turns out that was what most people wanted to talk about, and the team had no answer ready.
Anyway, the Mormons got what they wanted. And over the weekend, hundreds of people let them know what they think of their nasty agenda, rallying in front of the Oakland Mormon temple. According to the Trib, the demo forced Caltrans officials to shut down freeway off-ramps near the temple for more than three hours. Cry me a friggin' river.
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As a mormon and a women of color, I really despise the fact that the media has gone to these lengths to slam the mormons and to say that
something was wrong with the majority in exercising our rights as citizens of this great country and state to vote for what we believe is right. When
did right become wrong and wrong become right. It was never a civil rights issue and the media needs to go back to school to get your
facts together, gays and lesbians were not born that way, it was their choice to be gay. As far as tolerance, look at what they have done
and thanks to the media, it really shows how intolerent these gays and lesbians are. Come on now, the more you write about the LDS Church
and Mormons, the dumber you paper looks.
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Nobody cares about the no on 8 supporters. If they were smart they might have protested before the election. I guess it's what you call natural selection and survival of the fittest they are slowly (homosexuals) weeding there way out of society. Nobody likes a sore LOSER, if the supreme court even thinks about overturning the peoples will, they will regret and they will actually feel the full force of the people. Anyway I didnt choose my skin color, they chose to be gay and non -reproductive, they can't even compare themeselves to the blacks and even the mormons who were persecuted and even killed. It was still legal to kill a mormon in missouri until 1989 and some people think it is still ok to kill people of color. So homosexuals cry me a river and get oner yourselves.
THANK YOU CATHOLICS MORMONS AND EVERYBODY ELSE WHO SUPPORTED THE BANNING OF GAY MARRIAGE.
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