This is just precious. And a lot of truth in it. While it may not present the view of all Mormons, it certainly presents the view of the LDS church and their leaders, and those mortgaging their homes and their families futures in support of Prop 8. Enjoy.
Note: If you have trouble viewing the video, I have also provided a locally hosted version.
Proposition 8 and the election in general has brought out the worst side of us, as evidenced by overt racism at the McCain/Palin rallies and the growing tensions in California over marriage equality. Hate is finally out of the closet and on display for the whole world to see. In California, some Proposition 8 supporters compare gays and lesbians to Hitler, while others see us bringing about the end times. There seems to be no limit to what they will say or do.
I’ve put together a list of eight reasons why voting No on Prop 8 might not be such a terrible idea, particularly if you don’t want to be associated with the lot below. Here they are, in no particular order
1. People who want marriage equality are well, like, Hitler
Brad Dacus (pji, (916) 857-6900) a spokesman for Proposition 8, spoke passionately in Sacramento equating their struggle against gay marriage and saving the soul of America, to the people of faith in Germany who left the soul of their country to Hitler. Really?
Focus on the Family, one of Prop 8’s largest contributors, have released a fictional letter written by a Christian circa 2012, telling the story of what’s gone wrong with America in the first 4 years of an Obama presidency. Notable highlights include gay scoutmasters will be able to sleep in tents with young boys, schools can teach homosexuality as a personal choice, counselors and social workers can nolonger discriminate against homosexuals, and gays will target Christian book publishers, through defacement and censorship, including cyber attacks against those booksellers carrrying their books. Are you kidding me?
4. The Call
Organized by religious leaders across the country, the Call brings together people to pray for the passage of Proposition 8 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego this weekend. James Dobson of Focus on the Family has decided at the last minute to join event, at the urging of Rev. Jim Garlow, who later goes on to say that he fears the end of western civilization if Prop 8 doesn’t pass.
Don’t these folks have something better to pray for? Like world peace? Or food for the millions starving across the globe. Or cures for the sick? This is how they choose to spend there time?
5. Yes on Proposition 8 Sends out Blackmail Letters
Last week the fine folks behind Proposition 8 sent out blackmail letters to many businesses that had made No on 8 donations, threatening to “out” them if they didn’t make a matching donation to Yes on 8. Truly tasteless.
6. Cyber attack of No on Prop 8 Website
After sending out an urgent call for donations to match Yes on 8’s recent funding surge, the No on Prop 8 site was attacked by hackers, denying contributors from making donations for several hours. Hackers can be bigots too I guess.
7. Tom McClintock
Tom McClintock who is running for Congress in Southern California is quoted as saying:
“Lincoln asked, ‘If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? The answer is four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one,’” McClintock said in a statement. “And calling a homosexual partnership a marriage doesn’t make it one.”
McClintock is no friend of the gay community.
8. Orange County, California
Yes, the whole county. There’s nothing orange about it, it’s red, through and through. A bastion of support for Proposition 8, Yes on 8 signs are everywhere, from neighborhood lawns to billboards. Some of Proposition 8’s biggest contributors are from Orange County. Donors skew heavily conservative, religious, and Mormon. I suspect gays and lesbians are, well, unwelcome.
So, if you are planning to vote Yes on Prop 8, then you are associating yourself with the fine class of people mentioned in the examples above. Is that what you really want?
Several months ago Barack Obama came out against Proposition 8 but hasn’t said much in the way since. Until tonight.
On the 10/30/08 edition of NBC’s Nightly News, Brian Williams asked Obama about his approach to picking Supreme Court justices in lieu of a litmus test. Half way through the answer, and unprompted, Obama brings up marriage and the right to privacy.
“The right to marry who you please, isn’t in the constitution. But I think all of us assume, a state decided to pass a law saying Brian, you can’t marry the woman you love, that you would think that was unconstitutional. Well, where does the come from? I think it comes from a right to privacy.”
No on Prop 8 just released a new ad this evening called “Discrimination” narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, looking back at the injustices of California’s past and not to repeat them. Good stuff.
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