People called me crazy but I really felt something was VERY off when the Mormons poured so much money and manpower into helping pass Prop 8 in CA. Not that their help was unwelcome, but it seemed strange because A) CA is not a major Mormon stronghold and B) why would the Mormons off all people, work so hard to pass a law defining marriage as being only between ONE man and ONE woman? It’s well known that they only gave up their dogma regarding polygamy reluctantly under extreme duress from the US government, so why were they SO devoted to this fight?
I personally believe it was to “pave the way” for Romney’s run, to expose themselves to evangelicals and other committed Christians who probably had limited interaction with them, in a way that made them seem like “the good guys” and discourage any deeper inquiry into their , erm, “non-mainstream” beliefs
#1...Prop 8 wasn't the only defense of marriage ballot proposal in CA that Mormons entered into the pix on...There was another one in 2000...so...no I don't believe Romney was the catalyst for either ballot proposal in CA.
#2...You still, tho, asked a relevant Q...this one: why would the Mormons off all people, work so hard to pass a law defining marriage as being only between ONE man and ONE woman? It’s well known that they only gave up their dogma regarding polygamy reluctantly under extreme duress from the US government, so why were they SO devoted to this fight?
Why get involved in TWO CA ballot proposals defending one man, one woman marriage? Because, Lds like to conceal their past history (militating vs. one-woman marriage) by current PR campaigns...hence, their about-face of monogamy.
Sorry...Mormons...defending monogamy in just 1 out of 50 states...and only for two years out of about a dozen where homosexuals have attacked traditional monogamy...doesn't make Lds leading proponents of defending marriage.