Posted by one of the bloggers at Feminist Mormon Housewives: “My Prop 8 Manifesto.” There are two stories about the Prop 8 campaign and passage that are rumbling through media stories and LDS blogs. One is the post-election targeting of Mormons and Mormon buildings for angry protests and boycotts, reflecting the view of those who opposed Prop 8 that Mormons are somehow uniquely responsible for its passage (conveniently ignoring the fact that 52% of the electorate voted in favor). The other is the difficulty that the official call to support Prop 8 caused within the LDS Church itself for Mormons who support gay marriage or who are on the fence, as seen in the FMH post.
This quote from the post shows how conflicted some Mormons were about the Prop 8 issue:
I have given a great deal of thought to the issue of Prop 8 and I sympathize greatly with both sides. Obviously, I was not eligible to vote on Prop 8, but if I had been, I would most likely have refrained from voting on it. To be honest, YES and NO felt neither entirely right nor entirely wrong to me. I wish that there could have been some middle ground, but there wasn’t.
posted November 24, 2008 at 7:45 pm
This FMH quote is kind of silly, isn’t it? I guess some people might read this Hamlet routine and think the writer is brave, but her utter inability to make a decision about a hypothetical vote strikes me as hilarious. I’m not sure she’s on the fence, or if she is the fence.
posted November 26, 2008 at 7:02 am
You know, I don’t care what someone’s personal beliefs are or how they want to live their life in accordance with that believe. I am a Buddhist and many people would find some of my beliefs and practices strange.
What I can’t understand is why someone wants to impose their religious views on others. Either you believe that people are free to live their life or not. When it comes to Human Rights and deciding on who you love and decide to marry is a human right, who is right, the majority, the minority, the Christians, the Saints, or the Jains?
For any church to oppose Human Rights, I think is misguided.
posted November 27, 2008 at 9:58 pm
No one should be denied the right to marry the person they love….no matter what gender combination…M/F, M/M, F/F. The woman writer says she has gay friends. Does she find the idea of them “marrying” so bad? Apparently. However she did say that she disagreed with the church’s stance on Prop. 8. She is certainly conflicted.
If she was a lesbian, would she feel that it was OK to be denied her equal right to marry?
posted November 28, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Then you support legalization of polygamy, right? After all, ‘no one should be denied the right to marry the person they love’…
posted November 29, 2008 at 10:03 am
Well, KMB, to hear reformed polygamists pontificate on the sanctity and immutability of marriage as “one man and one woman” is absurd. That this politically connected, tax-exempt, rich, church should collaborate with the Roman Catholic church to remove the rights of people is unacceptable. The hypocrisy is stunning. The self-righteousness even more so. How does extending marriage to any loving, legally competent couple weaken it for anyone?
If that is “ramming the gay agenda down people’s throats” well, these are the same throats no doubt who opposed desegregation and, 150 years ago, would use the same Bible to say that “slavery is biblical” and therefore OK too. That mentality will always be on the wrong side of justice and history, and always must be opposed. Thank God Obama and the Democrats are in control now!
posted December 14, 2008 at 1:24 pm
KMB,
You failed to delineate between “the person you love” (i.e. singular, not plural, i.e. “I choose YOU, not a bunch of people.” – It’s called making a commitment.) and the persons you love.
Currently all citiznes (well, heterosexuals, anyway) have the first “right” (actually, not even heterosexuals have the “right” – it’s a privilege – it isn’t in either the Bill of Rights nor in the Constitution), and no one has the latter.
Nice try tho.