Finally East Coast Liberals are following the Mormon’s moral leadership… this time to establish in law the long traditional “separate but less equal” status of Freshmen:
Brilliant. You know you’re winning when you have cute Ivy Leaguers on your side. More info on the four day protests here.
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Macy’s and Nordstrom anchor stores, and all businesses that respect the LGBT community OUT of the 100% Mormon Church’s new $2 billion mega-mall in the center of Salt Lake City. Stop the profits of this highly politicized anti-gay, anti-civil rights church!
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I just gotta post this from the campaign against Prop 8. So. Damn. Funny. I think it only ran on the intertubes.
(And Dear Mormons, this is called metaphor. It describes what we feel is happening, but not in a literal sense that we think this actually will happen. I see from your comments on this ad elsewhere that this concept can be tough. Hang in there.)
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America is changing. Some of us are fine with the change, but it is clear why the Mormon Elders are freaking out:
Married white Christians now make up less than half of all voters in the United States and less than one fifth of voters under the age of 30. The declining proportion of married white Christians in the electorate has important political implications because in recent years married white Christians have been among the most loyal supporters of the Republican Party. In American politics today, whether you are a married white Christian is a much stronger predictor of your political preferences than your gender or your class — the two demographic characteristics that dominate much of the debate on contemporary American politics.
From The Incredible Shrinking Republican Base, by Alan I. Abramowitz
This also defines the core of the Mormon Church. This is not a church with a big role for the non-married (ask any single Mormon over 30), particularly the confirmed bachelors (ahem). Sure there are non-white Mormons, but do you see them in the leadership? Here are the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church:
They look like the Northern European Grandpas Club. Or the corporate directors who announce it is in everyone’s best interest to lay you off just before Christmas. What they are not is the rainbow coalition of God’s people.
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I have a theory on why Mormons seem “nice” but unnerving.
Mormons can be good people with an open generosity that is welcoming, but many visitors to Utah find it “nice” but want to get out fast.
I think Mormon “nice” is like Southern “gentility.” One theory says that the Southern obsession on politeness and manners developed as a psychological counterbalance to the bloody cruelty of the slavery on which their society was built.
Mormon society can be cruel. It is supportive and embracing of its members… as long as their thoughts, feelings, and actions conform to standards. If one slips – shaming, shunning, and excommunication await. So you better keep that happy face on! Always!
The result of this social training is people who have stiff “nice” personas without the effervescent bubbling of more spontaneous personalities. Two recent examples: Mitt Romney and David Archuleta (from American Idol.) Both are charismatic while being widely described as artificial and robotic. It is hard to be authentic when the society you grow up in has such severe consequences for mistakes.
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Every person touched by these issues must see Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Prop 8. Very heart-touching stuff. (Tall, handsome, incredibly smart, incredibly arrogant… I have a serious crush on him.)
Clearly Mormon President Monson needs to spend less time in the upper rooms of the Temple and more time watching MSNBC, because it is clear from this video which one has the spirit of god these days.
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A little side note to whichever Apostle keeps receiving “revelations” about gay people and moving this to the top of the church’s agenda…
If there is one thing all gay people learn, it is this: a straight men who fixates on gay men has some issues of his own. Give me a call. We can talk.
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Mormons are mortified that protesters get angry and do inappropriate things.
There are two types of crimes:
So I say protest on. They want to be political, well this is politics. They will learn.
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The Mormon Church’s official declaration on the reaction to Prop 8:
“People of faith have been intimidated for simply exercising their democratic rights. These are not actions that are worthy of the democratic ideals of our nation. The end of a free and fair election should not be the beginning of a hostile response in America.”
So their idea of politics is: If we win, you must shut up forever.
Um, HELLO? Expressing your view, as forecfully and loudly as you feel appropriate, and trying to persuade others to the same view… that is politics. What America do you live in? (Oh. right.)
* A South Park reference.
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Mormons, in their Palin-esque innocence, ask why they are the central target of protest. From the best article yet on Mormon’s and Prop 8 see today’s NY Times:
Jeff Flint, another strategist with Protect Marriage, estimated that Mormons made up 80 percent to 90 percent of the early volunteers who walked door-to-door in election precincts.
…and 77% of the private money for Prop 8 was Mormon. Why target Mormons? Because Mormons are 2% of California, and 80-90% of the hate.
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