1. Then: You religious people say that gay marriage could threaten your church's tax-exempt status. That is ridiculous fear-mongering; that would never happen.
Now: Tax the bigoted lobbyist churches that got involved in Prop 8!
2. Then: Proposition 8 is about basic civil rights and is morally wrong. It's a moral issue.
Now: This is a political issue, not a moral issue, so churches shouldn't be involved.
3. Then: It's unfair that so much funding is coming from out-of-state interests in places like Utah. This is a California issue; people in other places shouldn't get involved.
Now: Protest tonight outside the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, Utah—or come to the protest tomorrow at the temple in New York City!
Friday, November 14, 2008
"No on 8" Then and Now
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Proposition 8 has become the nail in the coffin for me as I continue to search for truth and guidance in a religion that I have been a member of all of my life. I refuse to be part of a religion that preaches political and religious separation and then takes it's members money and places it into the hands of politicians pushing their moral & religious agendas that have no place in the laws that govern our land. We should love all people no matter their choices with the knowledge that if they did not have their chance to find the truth in the here and now that they will in the after life. Now the only struggle I find with the LDS religion is why is my name still in their records, oh yeah, cause my family is brainwashed and I love them to much to excommunicate myself.
-N8
N8,
1) Normally, comments are supposed to have something to do with the post they're commenting on. You didn't address any of the points made in this post.
2) The LDS Church did not take its members' money and put it in the hands of politicians. It encouraged members to support the campaign directly themselves.
3) I never claimed we shouldn't love gay people; in fact, in the earlier post I specifically pointed out that we should.
4) Accusing your family of being brainwashed doesn't seem like a very sincere way to express your love for them. Because I believe in the same religion, I'm implicated by association, and I don't appreciate it, either. You can more respectfully disagree with people. The anonymity of the Internet tends to undermine respectful disagreement, but I invite you to rise above that.
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