Congratulations. You have found a way (albeit a ridiculous one) to turn the Mormons’ efforts to protect marriage into something evil. How twisted and full of hate can you be?
You completely overlook the normative effect of the law, and human nature. Alexander Pope said about sin, “First we pity, then endure, then embrace.” The homosexuals’ goal is to propagandize the new generations to believe that the obviously dysfunctional homosexual urges are “normal.” Calling their relationships “marriages,” and putting them on the same legal level as normal marriages would help them do that.
There is nothing hypocritical about the Mormon Church’s stand on that. Homosexual behavior is an abomination and unambiguously condemned in the Bible, while Old Testament prophets practiced polygamy. Even aside from the moral issues, sex and sexual attraction have an obvious biological purpose. Homosexual behavior makes no biological sense. Polygamy does, although I’m glad we don’t still practice it.
That doesn’t mean that we preach “hate” against anyone. Homosexuals are sons and daughters of God, and efforts should certainly be made to reach them. But loving the sinner does not mean embracing the sin.
Tell me, do you go to a church where the pastor regularly rails against Mormons? Or are you the pastor.