Posted on 11/10/2008 1:12:52 PM PST by TheDon
A lively but peaceful crowd of about 150 gathered yesterday outside the tall white gates of the Mormon temple in University City to protest the passage of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage.
The passage has been credited in part to a coalition of Mormons, Roman Catholics and evangelical Christians that poured tens of millions of dollars into the campaign.
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'Isi Mataele, 33, a schoolteacher and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was there to clean up any trash left behind. There wasn't much, if any, and Mataele talked with protesters.
Police watched as about 30 protesters gathered around Mataele, a few raising their voices as they bombarded him with questions.
One man asked why the Mormon church promoted discrimination and spent millions in support of a measure that denied him his right to marry.
Mataele remained calm as he answered, saying it was that man's choice to want to marry another man.
“You have the same rights – you can marry who I can marry,” Mataele said.
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Sounds like 'diversity' to me. And that's a GOOD thing. Actually the Constitution enshrines 'competing and conflicting interests' acting in our political processes. That's what the system of checks and balances reflects. It's just what the Founding Fathers envisioned.
“I think it’s just as unseemly for the Mormon church to be putting dollars into the gay marriage fight as it is for Jeremiah Wright to use his pulpit to agitate for Barack Obama”
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This, ladies and gents, is exactly the kind of idiocy that is ruining the republican party.
Get a clue, around the world.
The problem, Gay Marrage proposals pave the way for some churches to lose their tax exempt status. There is alot more to it than just allowing gays to marry each other.
How many of them marched in celebration of the law they passed against us SB-777?
So you think it’s acceptable for Rev. Wright to campaign for Obama from the pulpit or for Dem candidates to campaign in black churches?
If you say yes, I’ll disagree with you but respect your consistency. If you say no, you’re simply a hypocrite who endorses censorship.
Is calling people idiots your idea of building a better Republican party?
I think it’s unacceptable for anyone to even attempt to hint that rev wright is equivalent to a mormon protesting gay marriage. Especially if that someone claims to be a conservative.
Would you mind explaining to me and everyone else how you justify accusing me of censorship? Are you gay?
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