Heroic Goals, Gay Marriage, and the Mormon Church - Why You Should Worry
Filed by: Bobby Parker
September 19, 2008 9:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/heroic_goals_gay_marriage_and_the_mormon.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/heroic_goals_gay_marriage_and_the_mormon.php)
Yesterday Alex and Serena both wrote about the tremendous amount of money that the Mormon Church is directing towards the gay marriage bans in California and Arizona. But this story is about more that just money. It's about a powerful church with coffers full of money, stung for a century by an untruth about polygamy that just won't go away . . . and now, the opportunity to mount a campaign to kill this old bird and in doing so add the bonus of stamping out for a generation or more the hopes of thousands of GLBT folks to find marital bliss . . . this is the Perfect Storm of Religion vs. State.
Something is happening in the land, and by the time the electorate awakens on Wednesday, November 5th, it will be all over except the shouting. The Mormon Church, in my opinion the most powerful church in the United States (and perhaps the world), has very carefully orchestrated the process needed to write into the constitutions of three states the ultimate in discrimination against GLBT folks . . . forever forbidding them to marry.