Fifty people picketed the Mormon church in Ravenna at 8 AM today to protest LDS-financed attacks on same-sex couples and families.
“Most churchgoers waved while driving or walking by,” writes Chris, who attended this morning’s protest with his wife and daughter. “I hoped for more dialog with churchgoers, but most of them just walked by and said hello. We tried not to get in the way of normal church operations, staying on the sidewalk and not blocking church traffic. We chanted protest slogans (‘2-4-6-8, Churches shouldn’t legislate!’ ‘All families matter!’), and many people driving by were supportive and honked their horns.
“One female churchgoer thanked us profusely for what we were doing before walking in. The other I talked to was a young male concerned that we were making such a strong show of ‘hate’ against the church. He said that he was strongly against prop 8. I asked him what kind of internal dialogs were going on in the church about gay rights. He said that church officials preach that homosexuality is wrong. When pressed, he wouldn’t comment about the contradiction between his beliefs and those of church officials.”
Four out of every five dollars raised for the “Yes on Prop 8” campaign in California was raised by the Mormon church. The Mormon church is, as I said before on Slog, the villain in this piece.
Utah is the new Coors.
Well, righty then! Someone post the name, address, and telephone number of the Living Prophet of the LDS, and we’ll get right on with educatin’ ourselves.
“Utah is the new Coors”…
40% of Utahns aren’t mormon.
50 people showed up?!? I used to live on Broadway on Capitol Hill in Seattle…there are a ba-zillion gays there, and they only had 50 protestors?! Oye.
Simply put – the Mormons have proved with their complete obsession with PROP 8 to be a Tax-Exempt Hate Group.
Heterosexuals – You better wake up. Instead of pondering a cerebral concept like how gays want the “1,138 rights of marriage”, you need to educate yourselves about the CONSEQUENCES when one or more of those 1,138 rights are denied. GOOGLE “Freeheld” or “Tying the Knot”; watch the DVDs. Write it down now.
Your laws HATE us, and we’ve had it! Yes, I did said HATE – I stand by it. Because how else can you explain these 3
realities?:
A police woman loses her life in the line of duty; her wife of 13 years is denied all pension benefits.
A rancher loses his husband of 22 years; his inlaws evict him and try to take the home he built and lived in with his beloved.
A detective spends 25 years risking her own life while protecting society; she has to spend her remaining days on this earth worrying whether her earned pension will be transferred to her wife (while living with terminal cancer).
YES, H-A-T-E. And your silence on this matter is a serious affront to our families’s safety and security. FAMILY – isn’t that a cherished concept in the U.S.A.?
So now after decades of disinterest, some of us in the LGBTI community have AWAKENED. And we will refuse to pay one penny of income tax to the IRS until the government (i.e. – you) decide you WANT our tax dollars as EQUAL CITIZENS.
This ain’t a vote.
This ain’t a debate.
This ain’t a popularity contest.
You will PAY OUR TAXES until we have what your family ALREADY HAS; your apathy is costing you money as you read this. GAY TAX PROTEST!