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Hundreds protest over Prop. 8

Wa,wa,wa I didn't get my way.

The majority has spoken. I'm not protesting the people who gave Obama the $750 million to win his election. Although I didn't vote for him, he is the president elect and I respect that.

It wasn't the Mormons that defeated gay marriages, it was 2 million Californians that voted against it TWICE.

Why were the "marriage laws" that were on the books 100+ years ago sufficient to send the flippin' US Army after "us" when we challenged the traditional idea of marriage, but it take a friggin' amendment of the State of CA's constitution to enforce the one man-one woman concept of marriage???

BECAUSE demographically the gay-lesbian community is composed of spoiled, upper-middle to upper class brats whose baby-boomer parents run the whole fetchin' world. And those brats still have the nerve to claim the holy position of being an "oppressed minority".

How screwed up.

I suspect that all the Church has really accomplished here is to cause everything they wanted to avoid. They are uniting their opponents and creating tremendous sympathy for them while at the same time making themselves the focus of criticism that they triumphed by misleading and misinforming the public. The next wave of state constitutional amendments will be ones that legalize Gay marriage rather than banning them.

Go Home People. The voters spoke, what more do you want? and it just wasn't the LDS who voted. DUH!

Not enough californians voted against it. The church backed a constitutional change to remove rights. I hope they keep takin' it back to the church. Somebody had better be nailing their theses to the door.

Seems as though California has too much power politically anyway. And, yes, they are one of the "key" big states that elected our president elect who doesn't seem to stand for anything except whatever wasn't stood for in the past. LDS are a minority, too, but you don't see us doing much soap box work like every other minority out there. At what point will caucasian individuals be considered a minority? I recall that it is predicted to actually happen in less than 10 years at the present rate of change. And yes it is true that these folks make up that particular class and they have no kidfs to spend their moneys on so they push for adoption which will, if they end up putting as much into the kid as their pets, will knock them out of the upper class. I would rather they stay in the upper class and get slammed with those tax increases they voted for by putting in their "most liberal politician in congress" according to Newsmax who will make sure the wealthy get punished for being that way.

Funny how these things only further isolate their cause and marginalize their views. Violent protests over an election are not usually the most effective way to convince the majority.

His "shame on you" statement is very hypocritical. It's okay for him to judge and condemn them, but not okay for them to vote according to their conscience? Wrong.

I am just wondering if they also protested against the Catholic church and other churchs that were also in the coalalition that the LDS joined into ?
AND, the people voted this into law NOT the LDS church! This seems really immature to me.

The sign about mormons having 10 wives... yet again, don't have their info correct, but how dare anyone call them on it.

Mormons will always take a strong stand on marriage and family, and they will never run away from your criticism and persecution. You can fight and sue and cry and whine and burn our churches and temples all you want, but Mormons will never back down from doing what is morally right.

I love how the No on 8 side demands tolerance but only when it convenient to their agenda. I noticed how someone went ahead and defaced the temple gates with the words bigot in the picture shown.
Quite classy.

Protesters, where is your tolerance? Don't having any? suprise, surprise!

Funny how these comments only further isolate mormons from society and show how mean spirited and full of hate you are. Mormons are sad and furthermore a people of convenience. Wow I have never been happier about my choice to leave the cult.

Marriage is not a socially constructed idea as many would like it to be. It is something instituted by God and is inherently a man and a woman. These protesters have the same argument that boys would have suing the Girl Scouts to allow them to participate; flawed!! Girl Scouts have better cookies and benefit from that reputation and boys will never be able to benefit from it because they are not girls. Girls suing Boy Scouts would be another flawed argument despite Eagle Scouts receiving admiration and opportunities with jobs, school, etc. I imagine men will start suing the government because they cannot birth children.

I support gay partnerships but they are fundamentally NOT MARRIAGE. Just like the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender lobby has voiced over years and years; they are unique and different. Heaven knows I have received this "population-specific" training as part of my schooling and professional career as a clinical therapist/psychologist.

Oh, someone might want to educate the bigoted sign the lesbian is holding up about Mormon's.

More and more people are seeing this as a Civil Rights issue and justly so. I applaud the people who are fighting for their rights. If it wasn't for black citizens standing up for equality who knows where we would be today as a country. The gay marriage movement is no different. People who apose gay marriage use the excuse that they don't want their kids being taught about this issue in school. People who were fighting against blacks didn't want their kids being integrated into their all white schools. People say that in the Bible it states that a man and a woman are the only people allowed to get married, however in the Book of Mormon it states that blacks are a lessor race than the white race. My point is, is that all of these arguments are ridiculous. California will eventually allow gay marriages to happen and then the rest of the country will follow. Whether it happens next week or next year it really doesn't matter, because people are inherintly good by nature and they will see the error of their ways. Opposition to gay marriage is out of fear and fear will never win....Love.

For those of you who ask why didn't anyone protest the Catholic Church or the Protestants? The answer is simple, those churches gave their opinions with class. The Mormon Church took this political issure on as their own little war. They were in every large newspaper shoving their views down everybodies throat and people are definately sick of it. I would definately be a little weary if I had a child on a mission in California right now. Their are many people who are very upset with the LDS Church right now.