Mormon Home Invasion
Here's a commercial about Prop 8 in California that really tells it like it is. I don't think it's being aired, I think it's just out there in YouTubeLand. It's probably too incendiary to win over the few remaining undecided/middle-of-the-road voters, but it's great for firing up the base.
You know, before this whole Prop 102/Prop 8 thing, I didn't have much reason to dislike Mormons. Up until now I've totally bought into the whole diversity thing, and tried my best to make the workplace and the world a place where we can all respect each other and not hold differences against each other. For six years, I wrote a "Diversity Corner" article that was published and forwarded all over Intel, and the one column that got by far the most negative response was not anything to do with GLBT, but one I wrote about Mormons - and it wasn't anything about the tenets of their faith, just about the charitable works they do worldwide. At the time, I was surprised and saddened that there was so much negativity towards the Mormons.
But regardless of whether Props 102 and 8 pass or fail, I have now developed great animosity towards the Mormon church. (I already have very low regard for the Catholic church and Evangelical Christians.) Yes, I know that some Mormons (a minority, to be sure) are supportive of gays and oppose 102/8, but the church as an organization has gone to great lengths to harm me, my marriage, and my people. They have slandered and villified us and ordered their legions of followers to give millions of dollars and spend countless hours trying to write the denial of equal rights for us into our state constitutions. I now have a reason to actively resent them.
I don't really feel good about this, because I know that harboring anger and animosity will only poison my soul and destroy my inner peace.
Click to viewYou know, before this whole Prop 102/Prop 8 thing, I didn't have much reason to dislike Mormons. Up until now I've totally bought into the whole diversity thing, and tried my best to make the workplace and the world a place where we can all respect each other and not hold differences against each other. For six years, I wrote a "Diversity Corner" article that was published and forwarded all over Intel, and the one column that got by far the most negative response was not anything to do with GLBT, but one I wrote about Mormons - and it wasn't anything about the tenets of their faith, just about the charitable works they do worldwide. At the time, I was surprised and saddened that there was so much negativity towards the Mormons.
But regardless of whether Props 102 and 8 pass or fail, I have now developed great animosity towards the Mormon church. (I already have very low regard for the Catholic church and Evangelical Christians.) Yes, I know that some Mormons (a minority, to be sure) are supportive of gays and oppose 102/8, but the church as an organization has gone to great lengths to harm me, my marriage, and my people. They have slandered and villified us and ordered their legions of followers to give millions of dollars and spend countless hours trying to write the denial of equal rights for us into our state constitutions. I now have a reason to actively resent them.
I don't really feel good about this, because I know that harboring anger and animosity will only poison my soul and destroy my inner peace.