More Maine Gay Marriage fallout; "The Gay ATM is CLOSED"; the system of Gay Apartheid

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It seems like the MORMON CHURCH is in a quandry:
Hours after the LDS Church announced its support Tuesday night of proposed Salt Lake City ordinances aimed at protecting gay and transgender residents from discrimination in housing and employment, the City Council unanimously approved the measures.
"The church supports these ordinances," spokesman Michael Otterson told the council, "because they are fair and reasonable and do not do violence to the institution of marriage."

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_13758070?source=most_viewed


I didn't realize my marriage to my husband was the cause of violence to the institution of marriage.
 

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MORMON CHURCH LEADERS BEND UNDER SCRUTINY BROUGHT ON BY 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION.
IS THIS ANOTHER MORMON P.R. STUNT?
On November 10, 2009 several highly placed people featured in the upcoming documentary film 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION were contacted by well-placed people inside the Mormon Church in anticipation of an "historic statement against discrimination" to be made by the Mormon Church.
They were told, "Watch what we are about to do. You will be pleased."
At this hour gays and lesbians all over the world hope that the Mormon Church's announcement will not be yet another Mormon public relations smoke screen and result in action that will result in full marriage equality for the LGBT community world-wide.
Since the release of the trailer for 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION, intense scrutiny has been focused on Mormon involvement in the passage of Proposition 8 and allegations that the Mormon Church set up the infamous NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE which was the key player in Maine's recent ban on gay marriage.
Sources close to those who called our cast and production team alerting us to the upcoming Mormon statement on discrimination say that Mormon Mitt Romney has recently put pressure on his own church to extend an olive branch to the gay community to try and deflate the anticipated negative press that will come from the release of 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION that would likely damage his hope for a successful 2012 presidential bid.
Ironically (and we suspect in step with the Mormon's anticipated statement on discrimination) Mormon-owned KSL TV released an article on their web site saying "Romney appears to be front-runner in 2012 election."
http://www.ksl.com/...
While the 8:TMP team hopes Mormons end their game of discrimination against the LGBT community and wishes to work with people of all faith traditions to end discrimination, we would like to assert the following:
FACT: Under similar international scrutiny, Mormon leaders have in the past made similar statements regarding being against discrimination directed towards minorities & the LGBT COMMUNITY.
FACT: Gay leaders in SLC begged Mormon leaders to back up their statements on ending discrimination against the LGBT commmunity, through Mormon support for their COMMON GROUND INITIATIVE.
FACT: Despite lip service, Mormons did not get behind the COMMON GROUND INITIATIVE and in fact worked to see the initiative's defeat.
FACT: Despite lip service to people of color, the holiest book of Mormon scripture THE BOOK OF MORMON still refers to people of color as being "CURSED WITH A DARK SKIN, FILTHY AND LOATHSOME."
FACT: Despite lip service to people of color, printings of MORMON DOCTRINE by beloved Mormon Apostle Bruce R. Mcconkie, assert African Americans are "marked" for not being fully behind the plan of Jesus Christ in a pre-earth life war in Heaven.
FACT: A Mormon spokesperson told 8:TMP's director "this is all about public relations and making the church look good."
In conclusion, as Mormon heavy-hitters prepare for the so-called "historic announcement" our team would encourage Mormons to put their money and their membership by doing the following:

  1. Severing all Mormon ties to the NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE, which works to rob the LGBT COMMUNITY of their civil rights.

  1. Directing an amount of money equal to Mormon money spent in California's Prop. 8 campaign to LGBT marriage equality.

  1. Removing from all Mormon canonized scripture any reference to people of color as being "cursed or marked with a dark skin" or being "filthy and loathsome."

  1. Ask Mormon Apostle Dallin H. Oaks to retract his recent teachings on LGBT "alleged civil rights" and affirm that LGBT rights are not "alleged" but deserved and long overdue.
Our production team and cast await the day when Mormons will work with the LGBT community not only with their words, but their money and their members to achieve FULL MARRIAGE EQUALITY. This is the only way to truly advocate for the end of discrimination against ALL PEOPLE.
Anything else is lip-service.
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What people in fact do not understand is that this is really not about gay "Marriage" at all.

If ultra conservatives are successful at overturning all of the progress made towards legitimizing gay relationships this will be just a beginning.

On Tonights News, there is currently a big mess brewing in El Paso. TX because the City of El Paso granted Domestic Partnership Benefits to City Empoloyees. A petition was submitted to the City today with over 4,000 signatures. That petition demands that all Domestic Partnership Benefits be ended.

When it was learned that Disney had granted full Domestic Partnership benefits to Employees Christian Extremists sent hate mail to Disney Execs Demanding that this be removed because it was geared primarily towards benefitting "homosexuals". Fortunately Disney stood up to these people.

There is an old saying: "Hold your friends close, hold your enemies closer.) Extremists do not want an end to gay rights, they want an end to gay individuals.

Here is how gay people have been targeted.

1. No Gay Adoptions
2. No Gay Marriage
3. Eliminate any Legal Protections for Gay and Lesbian Individuals
4. Re-Criminalize Homosexual Acts
5. Jail or "Concentration Camps" for Gay people.

All of the above have been preached not only by Fred Phelps, but by many more mainstream and acceptable "extremists" including James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Presbyterian in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

Anyone who thinks that this is not possible or "can't happen here" is deluding themselves. Remember that the Concentration Camps which were instituted during World War II did not house people of Japanese Citizenship. Manzanar and other such camps contained American Citizens of Japanese ancestry who were born and raised in the United States. The ONLY thing these people were guilty of was having a Surname that was of Japanese origin.

People and their rights are only protected by their own vigilance.

I can go on and on citing historical precedent after historical precedent for this kind of behavior, there are tons of them worldwide.

If given their absolute wish, Christian Extremists would without hesitation enact a death penalty for people of homosexual orientation just as was done by Adolph Hitler. There is little doubt of it. The Nazi party exterminated people for not only religion, but for simply being gay as well. The same gas chambers that conveniently disposed of people of the Jewish Faith were used just as often to exterminate gay and lesbian men and women.

I would like to think that the American People would "wake up" before this happened, but, we have raised many generations that do not vote and do not care.

There are no guarantees.







 

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We find ourselves in a quandary.

No quandary at all. Only a simpleton has difficulty differentiating his friends from those who mean him harm. The LDS have a long, long way to go before anyone takes them seriously as supporters of the GLBT cause: they are not our friends.