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…as bigots.
Impressive.
 

With their support for Proposition 8 the Mormons have more or less done what someone might do who — in an incredibly dumb moment — decides to call up the local IRS office and start asking the kind of questions that inevitably leads to getting audited.
Frank Schaeffer has an opinion piece on Huffington Post entitled [...]

Top Evangelical Resigns After Backing Gay Marriage
An outspoken and polarizing voice in conservative Christian politics resigned effective Thursday from the National Association of Evangelicals after a radio interview in which he voiced support for same-sex civil unions and said he is “shifting” on gay marriage.
The Rev. Richard Cizik’s comments _ made on a Dec. 2 [...]

Jon Stewart comments on the right war against marriage* and makes the basic points to a man who clearly isn’t all that bright….
Gay Marriage and Jon Stewart
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KSL tells us that

A group that supports the stand The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took on California’s Proposition 8 took out a full-page ad in today’s New York Times.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty placed the ad, which is titled “No Mob Veto.” [snip]
The ad says what began as “demonstrations” against [...]

I just found this one YouTube. I am sure it is the trailer for Troy Williams‘ (OneUtah author) recent movie.

As of today, it has been viewed 674,513 times and it is the MOST VIEWED YouTube video for ‘Gay Mormon’

The Mormon church seems puzzled by negative public reactions to their support for Prop 8 and other anti-gay laws. Their follow-up statements urge love and understanding while failing to understand that their own actions promote hate and discrimination.
Mormons are a powerful voting block and can generally be counted on to get behind [...]

How could I not hop (Here’s looking at you Australia) on the animal label trend?
Crossposted at The Bloggernacle Back Burner

What’s special about this case is that a gay man who, together with his partner, had been raising two boys in foster care for four years, was denied the opportunity of adopting the boys and giving them a permanent, stable, safe, loving home. This, because of a law passed in 1977.
Florida apparently allows gay [...]

By popular demand from this post.
The very question about a biological basis for homosexuality is motivated by social and religious conservatives who simply cannot deal with it. Further exacerbated by media and politics, the homosexuality-is-a-choice crowd has produced an explosion ‘armchair’ scientists not seen since The Church threw Galileo in prison.
Is it fair to point to the [...]

originally wrote this as a response to other comments. But the more consideration I gave it, the more I thought that it might deserve its own space. Many of the notions here are important to the traditional structure and style of American politics, and yet they are being thrown away, ironically by the “traditionalists” or “conservatives.” Take it as you will……

The original discussion began on the first day of something that resembles the social contract, a day lost in the mists of time. The most recent discussion to which I respond began here:

http://oneutah.org/2008/11/18/the-mormon-war-on-gay-people-is-also-a-war-on-eros/

Consider this an open letter to conservative America specifically on the issue of gay rights, but more importantly on the issue of the values and traditions of the nation in general, as illustrated by the example of gay rights.

When it comes to matters affecting glbt people, Andrew Sullivan is usually right.
Today’s tour de force on marriage is dead on. Sullivan argues that opposition to legal same sex marriage is part and parcel of fundamentalism’s long standing, ongoing war against modernity. At the core of religious conservatism is a yearning to turn [...]