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'Love advocates' plan 'kiss-in'
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Mormons don't go to gay nightclubs and offend gays.
Why do gays have to go to our places of worship to offend us?
Call it a lack civility, call it a lack courtesy, or call it a total lack of tolerance from a special interest group that demands tolerance of others, but not themselves.
I call it hypocrisy.
Kool....I'm in so long as gays are not invited!
Good luck and have a nice day. It's private property, get used to it. If someone was smoking in your home, you asked them not to, and they refused, became verbally abusive and profane with you, would we all be accusing you of "overreacting" for calling the police? Would I, as your neighbor, call for a "smoke in" on your front lawn, and view myself as morally superior?
Uh-huh.
I know you won't care because you are full of love and respect and will accord us the hospitality of your yard and home without question.
Please leave your approval online and publish your address so we can get our invitations out with the correct information.. We are all pet lovers so our dogs will be with us as well. I know you won't mind.
Thank you Deeda.....
And I am a lifelong Democrat Deeda-- I won't be voting for you in the future...
Like almost all gays, they walk around with a chip on their shoulder and try to force their warped sense of morality on everyone around them.
If I had the responsibility for security in that area Sunday, I'd close it for the day to all foot traffic.
NO ONE ENTERS... CLOSED TO FOOT TRAFFIC EXCEPT BY INVITATION
Who is this Seed chick anyway???????
This was not about love, but forcing PDA onto other people.
This couldn't happen in the rest of the Western World. I gay would have no problem in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame of Westminster Abbey.
Only n Utah, can a church buy Main Street, taking the rights of others away.
I can drink a beer in any plaza fronting as Cathedral. Catholics don't sent kids claiming to be elder to my door.
I've photographed many churches without being hit on by the police of god.
Growing up Mormon in Utah has made me learn to like Catholicism. I love the architecture devoid of secretive port holes. I love seeing light cast through stained glass.
Where temples look like fortresses from the Soviet Era, Cathedrals are inspirational.
This make you ask, if god is light and light is truth than god hides nothing.
Demonstrations like this will accomplish nothing good for GLTB.
I have seen several of you post comments such as "place of worship" and make bizarre comparisons to Jewish temples. Can someone please clarify how a sidewalk is a place of worship? These men didn't enter a Mormon church and hold hands- they did so on the street.
I hope you can all appreciate how much the rest of the US sympathizes with these victims and breathes a sigh of relief that, for the most part, you've chosen to sequester yourselves to just Utah.
To What? - yes they have every right to use cuffs and they did contact SLPD after the mos were removed from the plaza, the private property plaza.
To Arthur - sorry, Rocky and the City Council probably wet their pants thinking of that $8 mil they got for that block
The only question would be determining the fair market value of being able to discriminate against gays. If I was on the jury, I'd give'em a dollar.
In response to "Seriously"- when the LDS church purchased (legally, I might add) Main Street and turned it into the plaza, they dedicated it in the same fashion the LDS church dedicates their other properties--including meeting houses/chapels. In that sense, it is a place of worship for believers fo the LDS faith. It is the same as going into a Mosque without taking off your shoes. Or eating pork in a synagogue. It shows a distinct disrespect of beliefs and private properties.
And to Anon, I bet if the missionaries went to the Vatican and began teaching and handing out church information they would be asked to leave. As an LDS missionary I was kicked out of other churches and throw off people’s property. Don’t begin to tell me that any other church would let you do anything you want. This Catholic Church you are talking about, is not this, the same church who kicks our priests who have sex with young boys and women. Guess they are not too understanding and do not accept any type of behavior.
The LDS church welcomes any who will respect the churches beliefs and will treat the property with respect. We will not accept behavior that is against our doctrine that is meant to degrade.
I'm an "out-of state observer" too, but must in this case I side with the church on grounds of equality. Nobody's sexual orientation is a free pass to ignore property rights.
The two men were not, as you put it, "on the street." They were on private property whose owners make their own rules, just as you and I do about our own private property.
How can you support the two men without undermining the principle of private property? The logical extension of their claim is that any guest can, in principle, refuse to leave his host's property.
I'm not the least interested in the mens' sexuality. My concern is that everybody in the country--you and me and them--all have the freedom to make our own decisions about our own private property.
I'm sorry they chose to do what they did, because it was (a) rude to their hosts, and I hate rudeness, and (b)against the law, and I hate lawlessness.
I don't expect anyone to tolerate rudeness or lawlessness from me because of my sexuality, or any other consideration. So: equal treatment for the two guilty men.
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