wockner.blogspot.com - 11/15/2008
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The journalist in me has been uncomfortable for days with the routine assertions that Mormons bankrolled the ubiquitous TV ads that convinced California voters to amend their constitution to re-ban same sex marriage. "How exactly do you prove that?" the trained news reporter in me kept ...
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How the well-oiled Mormon machine helped pass Prop 8
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... do we plan to do about it—besides finger pointing and marches? Don’t get me wrong—these Join the Impact rallies are essential to show our solidarity on the matter of equality to the nation, but that energy and drive then has to be harnessed effectively or we will continue to lose. The factions of hate are now ready to take their well-oiled machine and work it on the rest of the country. Are we prepared to beat the LDS ground game?
Hat tip, Rex.
NYT: Mormons tipped scale in ban on gay marriage, gave 50% of total bigot budget
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
The NYT confirms it. Mormons gave half of the total $40m donations that the bigots at Yes on 8 received. (Hat tip, Rex.) First off, we learn that the Mormon involvement in Prop 8 was unusually large, even for them: “We’ve spoken out on other issues, we’ve spoken out on abortion, we’ve spoken out on those other kinds of things,” said Michael R. Otterson, the managing director of public affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Mormons are formally called, in Salt Lake City. “But we don’t get involved to the degree we did on ...
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redstate.com 11/14/2008 — I'd like to thank whoever-it-was for making me look like an
idiot for being against Proposition 8.
I was hoping that the hysteria over Proposition 8's passing
would start to abate soon - like GayPatriot ,
I find the reactions by some of the ...
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