Comments about ‘Hundreds take to S.L. streets to protest, support Prop. 8 ban on gay marriage’

"Local street preacher Lonnie Pursiful marched five city blocks with a small group of supporters from City Creek Park to the City-County Building, carrying anti-gay signs and wearing T-shirts with similar messages."

Lonnie Pursiful is the arrogant street preacher that thought it was OK to yell at brides as they were getting pictures taken in front of the LDS temple on their wedding day that they were "whores of the Mormon Church." Funny how issues like this can make allies of enemies.

Typical Laker fans!

California law gives registered domestic partners the same rights as a married couple and former domestic partners the same rights as former spouses. No rights would have been changed with the passing of proposition 8. The federal defense of marriage act passed in 1999 says same sex marriages are specifically not provided the same rights as a marriage between a man and a women.

The only thing lost was the ability to be married in CA and be able to challenge the federal law in the liberal 9th circuit.

Go to church on Sunday and do the following:

1) Count the jokes and references demeaning blacks
2) Count the jokes and references demeaning Jews
3) Count the jokes and references demeaning Catholics
4) Count the jokes and references demeaning the disabled
5) Count the jokes and references demeaning satanists
6) Count the jokes and references demeaning gays

Nine chances out of ten, you wont hear jokes and demeaning references regarding anything BUT gays. I do this activity each time I attend a three-hour block.

Shame on the Priesthood leadership for allowing such behavior. Now tell me that there is no bigotry coming from Mormons.

When UT has domestic partnership laws and civil unions, then they can say they are protecting marriage...

Psst. when people attack the Mormon church...fact: more people end up joining. Bring it on.

FYI-
More mormons in the U.S. live outside Utah than inside Utah. In case your wondering more LDS live outside the U.S. than inside the U.S.

# of jokes I heard today regarding your list, ZERO!

it's over. deal with it. should have done the demonstrations before the vote. move on with life losers

GLBT group would never looked up or quoted Roman Chapter 1 in any of those versions of the Bible in whole. This scripture which was applied to Romans does equally applied to present time gays and lesbians who are protesting against the traditional marriages. I would like to ask them to refrain from protesting and get on life with their defeat in dignity.

I live in Salt Lake and am not Mormon. Why the attacks on the church, they only have a stand as the rest of us and other religions do. To blame this only on the church is rediculous. The PEOPLE spoke by voting,these protests are not going to change anybodies mind on this issue. Where was all the support for gay marrage when the vote took place?

Even if your version of God thinks otherwise.

If the LDS church was pro-gay marriage not one of these phonies would whine about the "separation of church and state."

Gay marriage is wrong. The LDS church is right. And the phony protesters are hypocrites.

As I read these comment for and against I'm amused at the language and the lack of correct spelling. People get a life and move on. Let people live their lives as they see fit; their reward will come in way or another.

If I'm a bisexual, is it my civil right to be married simultaneously to both a man and a woman?

Standards and Principals do not equal "hate".

The lds try and stand for productive things like marriage, families, welfare for the poor, etc. and try to avoid smoking, the erosion of families, etc.

They have a right to have an opinion, right? They can also spread their opinion in a free market democracy, right?

LDS=Hatred and I hope the IRS changes your tax status.

TO SanDiegoD:

Well, all I can say is "tit for tat", and all of you liberals in California are a bunch of ridiculous hypocrites!

You ask why we "came into a state that is not yours, and poured millions of dollars into stripping the civil rights away from a minority group on a ballot issue that was not in your state and therefore was none of your business."

Well, in case you were asleep, two years ago the CALIFORNIA Teacher's Union came into UTAH and gave a lot of money and support to fight against UTAH'S ballot initiative for school vouchers. If you want US to stay out of your state, then perhaps you should follow your own advice and STAY OUT OF OURS.

You didn't listen close enough. Since I started my observations, every 3-hour block I have attended (in multiple states, not just UT and ID) has had cruel comments and jokes made about gay people. On average, there are at least five demeaning comments about gays. The majority of these don't start with 'A gay man walks into a bar...'

Granted, it may not happen in Relief Society or Primary, but it happens excessively in Priesthood meeting and occasionally slips into Sacrament Meeting. Most heavily in college wards, but family wards are also offenders.

I found it disheartening when I was trying to do all I could to fight my gay feelings that priesthood leaders mocked as much as they did.

After speaking with the Bishop and Stake President (both of whom were guilty), they both apologized and said they didn't realize how much they were making fun of a serious situation and how alienating that could be. Later that year, they talked about my comments in both Sacrament meeting and at Stake Preisthood meeting.

It happens all the time. Listen carefully. I'll come to your ward-and-count-if-you-want.

This is just one reason why many gay people feel that church-goers are hypocrites.

Marriage is not a right. Marriage is traditionally a religious institution that societies have decided to give a privileged status to for a number of reasons (social stability, family support structures, etc..).
The Prop 8 vote did not take away any rights. It merely memorializes in a state constitution that the privileged status of marriage should stay between a man and a woman.
Enough with the civil rights talk. No one's rights were violated. California voters decided to limit recognition of an elevated institution, "marriage", to that between a man and a wife- as has been recognized for thousands of years in almost all cultures.

So much for freedom of expression, we used that "freedom" at the polls, and we did it without bullets, spray paint, and name calling, or attacking anelderly lady carring a cross. We believe that marriage should be between one woman and one man. So does God.

The headline ought to read, "Millions stay at home and support traditional marriage--man to woman."