This hysterical anti-Prop 8 ad really is flat-out scaremongering religious bigotry against Mormons. If the LDS church had produced an ad showing a gay couple breaking into someone's house and stealing or seducing their children, it would be about on this level of obnoxiousness. I appreciate that one opposes the LDS activism, and its goal, on this issue, but making Mormons out to be a theofascist Gestapo is beyond the pale:
Mormon anti-gay home invasion!
Tuesday November 4, 2008
Categories: Homosexuality
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A lot of people are puzzled as to why the mormon church spent so much money, time and effort to get prop 8 passed.
If it is not challenged in the Supreme Court, it will indicate to them that the apathy of the majority shows that the time is ripe to take over the country !
I know this sounds outrageous but it can easily be verified with a study of their own documents which are spread all over the web. I encourage everyone to examine these things for themselves !
We really have to wake up and defend our constituion ! I know it is politically incorrect to bash other people’s religion but I feel that it is urgent that we defend our country against the very real threat of a Theocracy run by a Wacky bloodthirsty prophet !
Our democracy is under attack !
remember the Mountain Meadows Massacre !
Don’t let it happen again !
God is Love Not Hate !
Well after The Rapture, the Mormons and the gays will have plenty of time down here to chat and get to know each other!
The only part of the ad that is not true is the actual physical invasion of the home. Everything else rings true.
The LDS invaded the private, legal marriages of couples and destroyed them because they found them offensive. This was not some purely legislative exercise - the mormons deliberately set out to annihilate a secular, civil (not religious) arrangement that people cherished and entered into willingly. The sense of aggressive violation and hostility is quite accurate.
The Mormons having made by far the largest contribution to the Prop 8 campaign with its scaremongering tactics are now taken by surprise as their intolerance towards other citizens has come under critic? It’s bizarre if anything.
I don't understand your comment about 'seducing their children'. Homosexuality is different from paedophilia - just as heterosexuality and paedophilia are different. A little research would make you a better journalist - in fact a bit of common sense would suffice.
Religious views should be kept to members of that religion from which all humans have the choice to remain or to leave. The system of 'democracy' in the US is becoming farcical to the rest of the world - soon it will be considered as ridiculous as the US legal system.
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