I Got Your Civility Right Here…
Oh…you want a civil discussion now do you…?
California’s Prop 8: LDS leader calls for healing the gay-marriage rift
Now that California voters have outlawed same-sex marriage, an LDS Church leader called Wednesday for members to heal rifts caused by the emotional campaign by treating each other with "civility, with respect and with love."
"We hope that everyone would treat [each other] that way no matter which side of this issue they were on," said Elder L. Whitney Clayton, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Presidency of the Seventy.
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In a statement, the LDS Church said it does not object to domestic partnership or civil union legislation "as long as these do not infringe on the integrity of the traditional family or the constitutional rights of churches."
Which same sex marriage does not. But…you know that…
As for Proposition 8, "we consider this to be a moral issue," Clayton said. "We’re not anti-gay, we’re pro marriage between a man and a woman."
Right. Like you weren’t racist when you were denying black people a seat in your church…just pro white. You don’t have to be racist to be pro-white.
You gutter crawling scum have been lurking in the background of this battle for over a decade now, and all that is over. You fought to make your gay and lesbian neighbors second class citizens in their own country. Own it. Trust me…you will have to. Nobody is forgetting this. You want civility? Get The Fuck Off Our Backs.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
From Bigamy to Bigotry!
Those Morons protecting the sanctity of mariage all the way! Some of them have multiple marriages, and HUGE six-fingered families to defend.
I can’t wait until a pair of them show up on my porch again. I’ll show them my sacred underwear and talking salamander.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Well, it’s not just the LDS. The LDS has a formal central leadership, like the Roman Catholic Church (<a xhref="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,547723,00.html">which colluded to get GWB president again</a>).
But there’s plenty of homophobic non-religious subcultures in the USA. I’d include <a xhref="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7713334.stm">the LAPD as a particularly egregious example</a> (BBC video after short commercial).
I think it has more to do with the lumpen-ization of the US working class.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
No it’s not just the LDS. But their money and organization prowess in these same sex marriage fights has been absolutely astounding, and I think, decisive. But you’re right…it isn’t just them. Nor is it just religion either. And it’s worth noting that a lot of Mormon families have been devastated by all this. One good thing though is that the extent of Mormon involvement in the anti-gay culture war is more out in the open now then it was a few months ago. This is an accountability moment that has been long coming.