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And the unsurprises just keep on coming.\u00a0 You know the old story about how so many right wing anti-gay warriors turn out to have gay children?\u00a0 Phillys Schlafly?\u00a0 Alan Keyes?\u00a0 Charles Socarides, late of NARTH?\u00a0 Recall how the man who spear headed California Proposition 22, which was the first swing at same-sex marriages back in 2000, Pete Knight, turned out to have had a gay son?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Isn’t it interesting how so many of the most vitirolic gay haters have gay children of their own?\u00a0 Like…they’re punishing their kids, by waging war on the entire gay community?\u00a0 Like…all of us have to bleed, because hating their own flesh and blood just isn’t good enough?\u00a0 Isn’t it so very…unsurprising…that 67 year old Gary Lawrence, Mormon, California State LDS Grassroots Director, and prominent organizer of the Proposition 8 campaign, has a gay son?\u00a0 Surprise, surprise, surprise.<\/p>\n
It’s worth remembering in the wake of Proposition 8, that Mormon abuse of their own gay children has been well known for some time now.\u00a0 If you thought it was tough growing up gay in a Southern Baptist household, just listen to the stories of gay Mormon kids.\u00a0 And…(Via Pam’s House Blend), like all the children of the anti-gay culture war, this particular son has his own heartbreaking story to tell<\/a>…<\/p>\n Matthew Lawrence, 28, of Santa Ana, California is just one of approximately 500 people who have contacted Signing for Something ( http:\/\/www.signingforsomething…<\/a> )in the last few days to announce his resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of the Mormon Church’s handling of and involvement in the gay marriage issue. \u00a0Matthew is gay and is the son of Gary Lawrence, 67, who is the “State LDS Grassroots Director” for the state of California. \u00a0(See http:\/\/yesonprop8.blogspot.com…<\/a> ).<\/p>\n Matthew Lawrence, in an e-mail interview with this diarist, said that although he is “extremely upset and frustrated” with his family and that he has “cut off communication with them,” that “at the end of the day, I do love them.” \u00a0The elder Lawrence was also the Mormon Church’s point man for the Prop 22 campaign in 2000. \u00a0Matt says, “I love my family so much, but it’s hard to not take this personally. \u00a0We had a brief falling-out over Prop. 22, but that got mended. \u00a0But two anti-gay initiatives in eight years, it’s impossible not to feel attacked.”<\/p>\n\n