I was simply trying to discuss the reason WHY such action might have occured.
Mormons go around tooting their own horn regarding their “good works,” yet when someone tries to point out the fact that while Mormons indeed contributed to the success of Proposition 8, they weren’t the only ones, and this work doesn’t “earn” them anything. Isn’t this a “work” they should be doing in humility? Is THAT a valid point?
To what aim do they use FR and sites like this to heighten their standing in the community and use it as a proselyting opportunity? Is that question too hard to examine on the News/Activism forum?
You have AMPLE opportunities to discuss such in the Religion forum and posted news articles that specifically raise that question (and there was one such posted in the News forum that had extensive doctrinal discussions). However, a lot of people are interested in the more broad subject of backlash against Prop 8 backers and do not wish to see threads about such continually degrade into re-runs of the exchanges between the two usual subgroups on FR regarding this subject.
In the case of Prop 8, there are many divergent groups of people who have been and are supporting Prop 8 and the Mormons.
If you are upset with what you label “tooting their own horns” from the Mormons with regards to their extensive work on Prop 8, why have you not also spent equal time attacking the other groups who also have “tooted their horns” in support of Prop 8?
Within the context of this news forum, your focused attacks on the Mormons’ beliefs makes a substantial case that this is not so much about your being against the Mormons’ theology as it is that you are supportive of and sanctioning gay marriage.