November 26, 2008

Yoo Hoo! Mormons! About That Petition… (Or: How Outrageous Do We Have to Be to Get You to Answer a Simple Question?)

Golly, Mormons, y’all were so eager to pile on in the comments before the election, and now, no matter what we say, you’ve all run off like bunnies with their little cottontails on fire. What, you don’t have anything to say to us anymore about your great and wonderful church? I know you’re reading — we get an awful lot of traffic from Utah every day (nah, I decided not to block Utah; let ‘em learn something).

Oh, well, I’ll just keep asking you to explain yourselves, and even if you don’t respond, I’ll be comforted by the knowledge that you have plenty to think about.

Like this question — one I find reason to ask you with monotonous regularity lately:

Are you still convinced the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wasn’t responsible for stripping me of my civil rights in California? If so, how do you explain this big, fat thank-you-for-screwing-the-gays petition sponsored by Maggie Gallagher’s brand-new anti-gay Web site, BelowThePondScum.com, a.k.a. AboveTheHate.com?

Online petition thanks LDS Church
for Prop. 8 support

More than 3,000 people, including long-time Mormon critic James Dobson of Focus on the Family, have signed an online petition aimed at thanking the LDS Church for its efforts on behalf of California’s traditional marriage initiative known as Proposition 8.

“Anyone who participated in this process has come to admire the competence, diligence and moral courage that so many members of your faith community displayed as part of this coalition effort — as Catholics, Evangelicals, Mormons, and people of other faith communities all came together to fight this great battle for marriage,” says the petition, which is addressed to LDS President Thomas S. Monson.

The petition condemns recent protests against Mormon temples and members, saying, “it is deeply unfair, and contrary to the best American traditions, that any faith community, much less a minority one, should be singled out and attacked in this way by powerful, well-funded political forces determined to ‘make them pay’ for participating in the normal political processes of democracy.”

The online effort was created by the National Organization for Marriage, a non-profit group in Princeton, N.J., organized to lobby, organize and collect donations on behalf of ballot measures defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman.

Yeah, we know the NOM, the anti-gay hate group headed by Gallagher, whose real problem I’ve been meaning to detail in depth; in a nutshell, the root of “Christian” homophobia, as put forth by Gallagher and all her anti-equality pals, primarily the straight female ones, isn’t gays, per se, but straight men. Yes, you read that right: The whole problem with gay marriage is straight men. The real reason for Gallagher’s anti-gay hysteria would be just pathetic and somewhat amusing if our very quality of life weren’t at stake — which makes it all just plain pathetic. Rest assured that once you understand what “protect marriage” really means to these nutballs, you’ll see how all their arguments unravel, and how the entire crusade can be melted under the harsh light of day (and with the aid of a good magnifying glass) — and you’ll understand just what needs to be exposed, and to whom. But I digress, as usual. I’ll get into all that at a later date, and just let it lie there for now.

So, about that thank-you-for-screwing-the-gays petition: The signature list reads like a Who’s Who in Hate, including:

…Donald Wildmon, American Family Association, Charles Colson of Prison Fellowship, Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, Paul Weyrich of Free Congress Foundation, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and Gary Bauer of American Values.

Yeah, big surprises all — not. Me, I’m jonesin’ to start digging deep into the not-so-well known signatories, most of whom include their business names (heh!), which will be ever-so-helpful as a supplement to our new database of Prop 8 donors and associated warriors against freedom. (Yep, it’s getting closer to launch; I toldja much of the work I do is tedious grunt work, and there’s a lot of back-end stuff that needs to be locked down. Hang in there!)

Well, Mormons? If y’all weren’t responsible for murdering my civil rights in cold blood, how do you explain the Radical Righty petition thanking you for doing just that? Are Gallagher and Dobson and all the rest lying about your involvement? Could it be that they’re trying to shift blame onto you, making you the fall-guy (as I’ve said all along they would anyway)? Or could it be that, by golly, Mormons really are bad guys, just like Dobson and His Merry Band of Gay Slayers?

Well, which is it, Mormons?

And if you ever finally confess to your sins against gay and lesbian Americans, then where the hell is your apology? Or do we have to wait a hundred years or so, like African-Americans did, for some future “prophet and revelator” to have some holy “revelation” before the church says, “Gee, looks like we did screw you guys. Sorry about that!” - ?

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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