Rescind the ability for the state to marry people.

The state can issue a domestic partner license. And a Church can marry.

The state can’t baptize, can it?

There, you’ve separated Church and State.

Discrimination through deception, disregard for separation of church and state, and reproach for equality are profoundly unAmerican concepts and most people I know have a newfound disgust for a group that they never thought twice about before (except of course when they were on the news for their freakish cult practices).

“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson

Are you now suggesting that the Church become a slave of the State?

You surely wouldn’t argue the converse, would you?

Ric Cantrell got the intent of my post. I wish I could be surprised that you didn’t.

I guess Frank what I didn’t get from your post was that you stand firmly against the LDS church’s position on homosexuality and your own complicity in this ancient, stupid, barbaric bigotry.

Frank, come out of the darkness. Be brave. Throw off the chains, for the sake of the kids. Come into your light!!!

[No] intent on the part of the LDS Church to be spiteful toward gays.”

Consider the brutal hypocrisy in that statement.

Given the fact that the LDS church or any moron could predict that gay people might FEEL spited, despite your assurance otherwise…

What you are really saying is “tough shit gay people!” “We have to do it because God tells us to (and we have $2 million bucks burning a hole in our pockets).”

No intent Frank? Ok, all is forgiven. And I want you to know, I have no intent to be spiteful toward the LDS church, but for the demands of non-secular humanity which easily recognizes bigotry and cruelty without the distortion of religion.

Someday, you will understand. You are BETTER than your church my good man.

There was no intent whatsoever on my part to be spiteful toward Obama, nor was there any intent on the part of the LDS Church to be spiteful toward gays.

Considering that you generally make a living on OneUtah from being spiteful, I can see how you think that I was being spiteful in my sincere comments about Barack Obama. We generally project our own weaknesses onto others.

Ric Cantrell got the intent of my post. I wish I could be surprised that you didn’t.

Just asking you to consider your biases. It seems to me, anyone with your intelligence who can feel good enough about the LDS church’s mean-spirited attack on gays to post an attack on the ‘offended’, cannot possibly have the luxury of spiritual clarity (assuming your spirituality transcends obedience).

Wait a sec…

Is this a setup? Am I on candid camera or something?

You should seriously consider that fact that Obama did not win BECAUSE he is black, he won DESPITE the fact that he is black.

So whats with all the “I didn’t vote for Obama, but I am not a racist” talk?

We are all racist at some level. The question is how you deal with it.

I will be pondering THIS statement all night,

predominance of Americans agree that a black man is qualified to be at the helm of the United States of America

Hmmm. I assume you mean a predominance of WHITE Americans. It sounds like you deserve a lollipop or something.

Forgiveness maybe?