1997 Mormon memo on banning same-sex marriage receives wide exposure
by: Pam Spaulding
Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 08:00:00 AM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=414C5056CBB3022838B755CC077186F0?diaryId=8193Last week it was revealed that the LDS church has been thinking about efforts to ban same-sex marriage in California for more than a decade, and was well aware of the church's PR problem if it were to lead the charge on a referendum.
What the late LDS leader Gordon Hinckley knew at the time was that he needed to hook up a church with a better rep (ha!) to front for it - the Catholic church. Here is a report on the strategy memo:
In the above report, the church doesn't question the memo's validity, in fact, the sources said there are other related documents that could surface. One snippet of the LDS memo underscores the level of hate the church has for gays (HLM refers to "homosexual legal marriage"):
