Posted on 07/06/2010 8:48:34 PM PDT by Ripliancum
I haven’t yet seen “8: The Mormon Proposition,” but from what I’ve read, the story starts with the LDS church’s involvement in the defeat of same-sex marriage in Hawaii 12 years ago. From The Los Angeles Times:
The documents revealed how, in a 1998 campaign in Hawaii, the Mormon Church helped to stop same-sex marriage through inconspicuous association with other denominations, such as Roman Catholics. The experience laid the groundwork for the Prop. 8 battle, during which many Mormons were encouraged to make donations to the California campaign, some of which, the film contends, were hidden. Consequently, the amount of money the Mormon Church contributed to the campaign was underreported, the movie argues.
Remember, Hawaii has the second-highest concentration of Mormonos of any state in the U.S., next to Utah. More than 60,000 Mormons live in Hawaii, or about 5 percent of the overall population. As someone who lived in Utah for three years, I can’t help but wonder how much the church had to do with Gov. Linda Lingle’s decision on Tuesday to veto a civil unions bill. Honolulu Weekly’s Ryan Senaga wondered something similar in his review of the film a few weeks ago:
Perhaps after the final fate of HB444 is determined, a searing, a powerful documentary like “8″ will be made about the journey of that bill. But will it revolve around the bill’s passage into law, or its veto? If it’s about the veto, will we want the world to learn about the insidious steps behind the scenes of its demise and would we want our streets and the faces of certain kamaaina are forever documented as promoting hate?
— John Wright
Wait.
Mormons did something good?
Impossible! They’re....they’re....Mormons!
/sarcasm
About 5%.
Wyoming has over 10%
| State | Number of congregations |
Number of members |
Percent of state population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 2,924 | 1,236,242 | 71.76% |
| Idaho | 662 | 268,060 | 26.63 |
| Wyoming | 128 | 45,793 | 10.10 |
| Nevada | 198 | 89,033 | 7.41 |
| Arizona | 469 | 199,761 | 5.45 |
| Montana | 106 | 28,620 | 3.58 |
| Hawaii | 109 | 38,303 | 3.46 |
| Oregon | 228 | 89,601 | 3.15 |
| Washington | 371 | 150,634 | 3.10 |
| Alaska | 58 | 15,751 | 2.86 |
| State | Number of congregations |
Number of members |
Percent of state population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 2,924 | 1,236,242 | 71.76% |
| California | 1,323 | 533,741 | 1.79 |
| Idaho | 662 | 268,060 | 26.63 |
| Arizona | 469 | 199,761 | 5.45 |
| Washington | 371 | 150,634 | 3.10 |
| Texas | 329 | 111,276 | 0.66 |
| Oregon | 228 | 89,601 | 3.15 |
| Nevada | 198 | 89,033 | 7.41 |
| Colorado | 193 | 70,313 | 2.13 |
| Florida | 160 | 59,845 | 0.46 |
Note: Data from this and following tables come from the 1990 Glenmary Research Institute study of county-by-county membership data from 130 U.S. denominations. The data was based on organizational reporting. Adherents.com has correlated these data with results from the 1990 Kosmin/NSRI (National Survey of Religious Identification)
Of course, these numbers are 8 years earlier than when the LDS did the big fight against ssm in Hawaii in 98.
They are livid, and their potty mouths are exploding.
ctr
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