Mormons Step Up Efforts to Fight Gay Marriage
October 23, 2008 by James Hipps
From kansascity.com:
Mormons are being asked by their church leaders to step up their already considerable efforts to pass a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California.
Senior elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a televised appeal to members Wednesday night and laid out a week-by-week strategy for boosting Mormon involvement before the Nov. 4 election.
They urged Mormons to man phone banks, distribute campaign materials and intensify voter registration efforts during an hourlong meeting, which was broadcast to church buildings in California, Utah, Hawaii and Idaho.
The Mormon church is part of a coalition of conservative groups backing Proposition 8, which would amend the state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman and thereby overturn the California Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage.
“What we’re about is the work of the Lord, and he will bless you for your involvement,” Elder M. Russell Ballard said during the broadcast.
Mormons have been active participants in the campaign both as volunteers and financial contributors, giving $8.4 million to the Proposition 8 campaign, according to the Web site mormonsfor8.com. There are about 770,000 Mormon church members in California, but Mormons from outside the state have been encouraged to give money and time to help pass the measure.
And what exactly is it that any Mormon church ever did to enrich humanity?
Oh, exactly as I thought. Polygamy. Does that mean they love orgies?
Screw them for passing judgement on anyone. Joseph Smith must have had some good shit to smoke back then when he claims to have met God and make up those “dandy” rules.
And they insist what?
How about this: I insist that since they involved themselves in our political issues, that they lose their 501(c)3 tax exempt status. Press on Queers. Fight back.