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Hundreds protest over Prop. 8
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The gay community claims that the pro-proposition forces don't really need to worry about militant homosexuals taking this marriage issue into the courts and classrooms of America, that their fears are unjustified, so there is no need for this propistion.
And they are about to prove it by harassing these groups, protesting and take this issue into the courts. Have I missed anything?
Once those were passed, lawsuits were ready to remove use of public property and tax exemption from "any religions body that descrimnated against married couples" -- and the Boy Scouts of America, the LDS Church, and the Roman Catholic Church were already named defendants.
Thank you, California, for saving your children from this great wave of indoctrination into the homosexual lifestyle and the attacks on religion which were to follow.
As much as I would wish to believe that a large percentage of African-Americans in California are Latter-day Saints, I know that most are not and so the fact that African-Americans voted the most heavily of any racial group in favor of Proposition 8 indicates that at least some historically black churches have spoken in favor of it.
We are making friends with people who actually believe in God, and loosing friends among those who say God is dead. The humanistic opponants of Prop 8 would never in a million years have joined the LDS Church, so there is no real loss to this church in the battle.
There is a big difference between not opposing and supporting. The Church does not oppose such things, because they are largely political issues.
The accusation that the church controls any state legislature is false. The claim that it controls such state legislatures in Idaho and Arizona is down right ludicrous.
I am LDS and voted against this, but it's over, for now. For anyone that says that I am not following the prophet, well you show me your two-year food storage, perfect home teaching record, and how many neighbors you invited to church this year. No one is perfect when it comes to following the prophet. But some of us are sincerely trying to understand this political move in light of the gospel. Sometimes the answers don't come easy. In the meantime, I am following what I feel is right.
I don't know if I would call it a letter of resignation but also sent a letter to the Church Office Building (COB) to ask that my name be taken off the membership list.
One week later I received a letter back saying it had been sent to the local Bishop. I never did hear from anybody for about 4 weeks.
Then I got a letter from the COB that my name had been taken off as a member.
My partner did the same thing as well as several of my family members.
Members are leaving because of this.
I am LDS in Costa Mesa and voted No on Prop 8. But given your ability to make a joke of the situation, looks like I'm not the only one who didn't "follow the prophet." This is why our church is being targeted. People like you have no tact whatsoever.
For those of you who would cast a blanket over the rights established in the Constitution of the United States I will say find a copy and read it. AMENDMENT #ONE declares, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" This means that all churches have every right to exercise there religion. I humbly declare that God has a prophet on the earth today. We are taught to hear the counsel of the prophet, ponder, and pray about it and then act. To those who are offended by this, it is your choice and one that everyone on this earth must make for themselves.
Idaho established its law.
THANKS OBAMA!
�This is no longer about waht is moral not moral or discrimination. It is about hysteria. It is about how the LDS church fed the hysteria and now does not have the skills to stop it. This has now fallen into an irrational rage"
The LDS church has unfortunately been used by a coalition of so called Christian churches and due to their ability to motivate / contact people and raise money have become the fall guy.
I don�t think the church planned on it going this way.
If anyone is bigoted or intolerant, it's them.
I've been sympathetic in the past. That's no longer the case.
They pretended to be civil until they lost a vote and now the true colors shine. Saw this coming from a mile away. The picture tells it all.
BTW I am active but reserve the right to make my own decisions. I for one think the church made a mistake being so vocal on this one and used very little tact.
Thanks for the bonding moment!
For example, the law says that a person cannot marry more than one spouse; cannot marry a sibling; and cannot marry an animal.
For those that support gay marriage, do you also support re-defining marriage broadly enough to allow these other types of marriage? Once we re-define it, where does that re-defining stop? Surely others will challenge the definition on the grounds mentioned above, and if there is no strict definition in place, nothing would stop it from being re-defined in multiple ways that possibly even gay marriage supporters would not agree with.
And now your church asks people not to spread lies about Mormons?
Too late, folks. Your church leadership let that cat out of the bag. We now have carte blanche to say whatever we want about you bigots.
And when you complain, you are being hypocritical. Apparently you really are cultists and not Christians. Because if you were Christians, you wouldn't be ignoring the log in your own eyes while calling attention to the splinter in ours. Jesus would have a word for you people-- it is "Pharisee." Your self-righteous morality and disdain for love and kindness marks you for God's fury when judgment day comes.
We fought for our rights to sit at the front of the bus, drink from the same fountains, etc. This movement is an intolerant push for special rights because they already have every right I have today!
And they wonder why it felt right to defend marriage for all of us.
In other words, "We got our piece of the pie now and we ain't gonna share it with you."
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