huffingtonpost.com - 11/7/2008
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Given their history, Mormons know about being targeted for being different. Yet in a full-on offensive, the LDS Church mobilized in favor of California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage. Mormons donated $19 million to the cause -- nearly four out of five dollars raised. ...
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 11/8/2008
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Radical gay activists are protesting the Mormon Church
and threatening to burn down Christian churches and hunt...
down people of faith who supported the ballot measure. Robert Oliver (L) holds a rainbow colored flag as a woman who identified herself ...
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Radical California Gays Lash Out at Mormons, Catholics & ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/8/2008
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The Hewitt strategy of trying to bring the
LDS church - especially LDS money - into a...
Christianist popular front began with the Romney strategy. Then it morphed into Prop 8, funded by $20 million of Mormon money. The leadership of the LDS church has ...
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From Huff Post: Given their history, Mormons know about being targeted for being different. Yet in a full-on offensive, the LDS Church mobilized in favor of California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage. Mormons donated $19 million to the cause -- nearly four out of five dollars raised. And now that the initiative has passed, apparently Mormons want to play nice; an LDS Church leader called Wednesday for members to heal rifts caused by the campaign by treating each other with "civility, with respect and with love." Not. So. Fast. Gay ...
Hate in the Service of Tolerance
PoliGazette —
... Other outraged Prop 8 opponents have taken a legalistic route, asking the new Obama administration to use the power of the IRS to punish any religious group they don’t like by stripping it of tax-exempt status. Religious groups that promote political causes with which the left agrees, such as the church of the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, would of course not be so targeted. ...
Intolerant Gays Attacking Religion
Rhymes With Right —
... Baptist Church to spew their warped religious faith. That said, there have been three assaults on the religious beliefs of some Americans by homosexual activists over the last week or so that are equally deserving of condemnation. Lets consider the first the assaults endured by the Mormon faith in the wake of the Proposition 8 victory. Not content to accept the voice of the people on the issue, gay rights groups have targeted the LDS Church for attack and special punishment with one writer for Huffington Post going so far as to demand that the Mormons be stripped of ...
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