DISQUS

Brinstar · 1 year ago

They consider me a second-class citizen, take away my civil right to marry, completely destroying my wedding plans next year, and now they expect me to treat them with love and respect? Fuck. That. Shit. They have no fucking clue what a horrible, heart-breaking, crushing week last week was for me and my partner. There's no way I'm healing anything with the Mormons.

Julie · 1 year ago

Ah, the mormons. It's seems pretty damn ironic to me that they would push for marriage being between one man and one woman when they were they great proprietors of polygamy in this country. We have the great state of Utah to thank for them being kicked out of the rest of the country due to their bizarre definition of marriage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_marriage

They're just a bunch of crazy fucking hypocrites who waged a successful battle of ignorance and hate, but ignorance and hate are losing the greater war for equal rights.

stuperb · 1 year ago

Pretty damn easy to be the ones advocating healing when they're not the ones who've been ripped apart.

I don't advocate revenge or spitefulness, but their protestations seem too weak and disingenuous to be considered right now.

Lemur · 1 year ago

Yeah, way to be special, Mormons. Peace and love from the folks you decided were unworthy. Yeah, that'll happen.
I try to remember that not ALL the members of a religion are responsible for what some or even most of the other members do, but damn. This is really hard and really painful and damn if I'm not tempted to go find a Mormon minister and yell at him for being a member of the most douchetastic religion since Catholics.

ZiJa · 1 year ago

I just don't understand why these religious followers are so against gay marriage when the divorce rate in the US is 50%. Why aren't they protesting divorces?

molly7 · 1 year ago

It is ironic that the sign says "we shall overcome H8" when they are singling out and attacking the Mormon church as the reason this bill passed. That is hateful in itself. Lots of people from different faiths (52.5% of California voters) voted yes on Prop 8 yet the Mormons are being blamed because they are an easy scape goat.

Brinstar · 1 year ago

I'm not sure about the rest of the populace, but I'm quite aware that the Mormons were not the only organised religion involved in the campaign to pass Prop 8. However, the Mormons were the most visible, the most organised, and reportedly poured the most money into the effort. The Mormons are being held accountable because of those reasons, but they are by far not the only ones who acted.

Psychic · 1 year ago

That was an intense review for you there. Though, I'm not that concern with your sexual orientation thing but I think the state was just doing it for "normalities" to their civil living as the number of gays or homosexual people are already dominating and quite alarming already.

Monavie · 1 year ago

As a Mormon in Utah myself...I find it very hard to comment on this post. Please hear me out for two seconds. I agree that Mormons weren't the only ones pushing to pass prop 8, but they were one of the main ones. It wasn't right and it wasn't fair. Right now, I stand on the fence. As a woman, I will some day marry a man, but I do so because I want to, and not because of what my Church dictates. I think the church shouldn't have campaigned to stop gay marriage. They only needed to say that we don't recognize that type of union as a part of our religion and leave it at that.

I, myself, am sorry for all you guys have had to suffer from this bill passing. I'm sorry for your cut wedding plans (Brinstar) and the bad taste this has left in all our mouths. I hope my comment has helped all to realize that all Mormons are not all the same, and we do want people to get along. I have plenty of friends of both genders that are attracted to their same sex and that is perfectly fine with me. In fact, they're some of the best friends that I have.

Peter · 1 year ago

Yes they're happy to love everyone, but only when it suits them.

Charity Donations · 1 year ago

I agree somewhat with your post. First I am Mormon, but I completely disagree with what was said and done about Prop 8. They should not have used their influence to sway the election. But you resorting to hate of the Mormons is only propagating the hate you say the LDS church has done. Hypocritical no? Another thing is you are lumping the Mormons into one category, those of hateful bigots. Is it fair that you lump me in there when I agree with you and oppose what the church has said and done? Prop 8 should not have passed and everyone should have equal rights, but we should not hate when a large group of people screw others over. We do need to have peace and civility but we also need to change what was changed cause a bunch of Mormons.

rich · 1 year ago

as a person who leans toward neutrality, i cannot help but comment on the irony of how 'the mormons are the evil, intolerable ones with no respect for others', yet as i read this post and some of the comments, it sounds to me like the anti-prop 8 people are the ones filled with rage and hatred, going around trying to sabatoge businesses and religious buildings. talk about being intolerable...

Shit Brix · 1 year ago

Lawl mormons. I went to mormania once (aka, Utah)
it was wierd. apparently they believe you get your own planet when you die, so their churches have spheres on top instead of crosses. What pros!

Japanese Skin · 6 months ago

Yes it's as hypocritical as it comes doesn't it. They're happy to bash the gays, but when it suits them it's all sweetness and light.