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Vandals damage pro-gay Catholic church

It's too bad that some people choose to protest this way. These kind of actions only widen the divide. This isn't the way to convince people.

The irony is that this is a gay-friendly parish in a mainly gay neighborhood. The haters are so focused on hating the Catholic Church, Archbishop Niederauer, and all who favored upholding traditional marriage, that they will hurl their hate at anything Catholic.

We've already seen it with Mormons, where they ran the gamut from outing $75 donors for Prop. 8 to graffiti-ing the L.A. Temple. They picketed my meetinghouse in S.F., no doubt totally ignorant of the singles ward there that has made quilts, kits, and other things for AIDS patients.

This is a hate crime. Mayor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Jerry Brown will never say so, because they are in the pocket of the same-sex special-interest group. If a swastika appeared on a gay-rights office, Newsom and Brown would be all over it like ants at a picnic, making bombastic statements on TV, calling in every possible law enforcement agency, and "assuring the community that this heinous act of bigotry will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

Please explain to me what a "pro-gay Catholic church" is. Quatsch.

The vandalism is unfortunate, but it's indciative of the larger problem: religions trying to force their beliefs on everybody else. It's time for the churches to get out of politics.

We live in a pluralistic society where people should be free to express opinions freely. Organizations should be free to express opinions as well. I have no problem with churches commenting on issues as long as they do not directly attempt to engage in policy making. The actions of the LDS church in this situation fall within its right to speak freely.

There has never been nor will there ever be a society in which some members don't try to, as you say, 'force their beliefs on everybody else'. The benefits of living in a democracy is that there is recourse for those who disagree with the decision. Some times, however, the majority speaks and the minority must either accept it or attempt to influence policy making through the appropriate means.

I expect robust debate but vandalism is a crime and is not an appropriate response to a differing opinion.

When a lone gay damages an LDS Church all you bigots cry out how horrible ALL the gays are!

When a religious bigot damages a gay Church and you all distance yourselves and say 1 bad apple doesn't spoil the barrel!

Hypocrites. Your religious bigotry gives these fanatics the justification for their horrible actions!

What are you talking about anonymous at 2:34 a lone gay damages an LDS church, did you even watch the news?? THere were hundreds of protestors and lots of damage, Any LDS out there protest a gay church? I don't think so. Find another tale to tell. There is never justification for violence

I feel bad that people think they have to lump all persons into one catagory. If there are some bad then everyone is bad. I know plenty of Mormons who are not great people but for the most part many are kind. Same for gays, most of us are peaceloving and would do nothing to desecrate a church.

What I have a problem with is the majority telling the minority how they should live. I hear the argument over prop 8 that the majority has spoken. If it were up to the majority in the South during the Civil Rights Era segregation may still exist. It is the courts that should decide. Our elected officials are there to make sure that the majority does not overrule the minority. That is what our country was founded on not souly on majority rule. What a shame it is that bigotry, hate, and discrimination still exist and even more shameful is Mormon's who have had that hate, bigotry, and discrimination against them think that it is okay to do it to others.