Is it me, or is it a strange world we are living in when some one's Beliefs are mock because one take a moral stand or goes against the so-called liberal establishment in this country. This is what happen when people banded together to defeat the California Supreme Court decision to change the definition of what constitutes marriage, For five thousand years the definition of marriage was a Union between Man and woman and yet we were suppose to drop all for the new definition?
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What the Gay community fail to realized when it came to pushing many would not negotiate on this issue to those willing to coop marriage for their own lifestyle choice. So when some in the Gay community decided to force the issue with the courts they should have realized that many would be willing to push back.
One being Catholic Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco who wrote LDS President Thomas S. Monson enlisting LDS Church support for the amendment to the California Constitution. Archbishop Niederauer had a good relationship with LDS leaders developed during his 11 years as bishop of Salt Lake City, and Latter-day Saints enthusiastically jumped on board.
The LDS First Presidency announced its support for Proposition 8 in a letter read in every Mormon congregation. California LDS leaders prompted members to sign up as volunteers, raised money, pass out brochures and distributed lawn signs and bumper stickers. Bishops have devoted whole Sunday school classes and the weekly Relief Society and priesthood meetings to outlining arguments against same-sex marriage. Some have pointedly asked members for hefty financial donations and in that the members donated the some of 20 million to win support for the amendment. they supported.
Now of course the Gay community have decided that Mormons are their arch ememy and are to say the lease a little bit upset they decide to pick on the Mormons! So this group of infantile Gay (so-called) rights (marginalized) groups decide that the big bad Mormons should be picketed. Is this not unbelievable?
So lets look at the reason the Anti- Prop 8 people lost. In some cases I really think that the Anti 8 groups thought they had it in the bag when looking at the exit Polls which on the whole tend to be dicey.
But according to the Exit Polls, the difference in Proposition 8's passage was two reasons.
First, 70% of black voters supported it. There were 10,357,002 votes case on Prop 8. The winning margin was 492,830 votes. And they were 10% of the electorate. So that means there were 1,035,700 votes cast by black voters. That right there provided a difference of 414,280 votes.
If I'm doing my math right and I tend to be dyslexic in that area, that is 84% of the winning margin.
Another group is Hispanic voters who also supported Proposition 8.
The second group that strongly supported Prop 8 appear to be Married people with children under the age of 18. Married people were 62% of the vote and voted 60-40 in favor; people with children under the age of 18 were 40% of the electorate and voted 64-36 in favor. 31 percent identified themselves as "Married with Children" and they voted 68-32 in support.
So if those protesters who went out and demos rated at the LA Mormon Temple really wanted to wanted to vent their outrage was in a word it was misplace? It seems to me that maybe just maybe Just maybe they should go out to their local black church and call them "bigots" and chant "shame on you." Could that be not something a liberal Gay rights activist would advise against or even not to politically correct, would it?
This iwas utterly shameful behavior. I understand why the losers on Proposition 8 are frustrated. But scapegoating the Mormons simply because it is politically-correct to single them out is really over the line. The sorts of Mormon-bashing advertisements that were being run by the anti-Prop 8 groups.
The Marta of Gay lifestyle and a re definition of "tolerance" of those who don't agree with you. I hope that these folks calm down and think a little about whether this is the best way of advancing their cause.
Whatever one thinks of same-sex marriage, this is a question on which thoughtful people of goodwill can and do disagree. It is a perfectly reasonable and good-faith position to believe that marriage is a unique institution formed around child rearing.
And to see same-sex relationships as fundamentally a bilateral partnership between two adults that can be governed by legal institutions like civil unions that create and preserve rights and obligations between two adults and to give the opportunity to form a long-lasting mutually-supportive loving bond without it being centered on the fundamental organizational principle of child rearing.
And it is significant that married people with children apparently simply see this issue differently from everyone else--I speak from experience that marriage and children simply can and should change you as a person and your worldview. Maybe one disagrees with this argument or these people. But it is a perfectly compassionate and coherent position and it simply is not necessarily bigotry or gay-bashing to believe that. Barack Obama says he is against same-sex marriage--does that make him a bigot?
That's not to say that some anti-gay bigots voted for Prop 8. But apparently the pro-8 side does not have a monopoly on bigotry.
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