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Why are homosexuals in Los Angeles surrounding Mormon churches and protesting outside them? Because they consider the church responsible for the passage of Prop. 8, which bans homosexual marriage in the state.
Now compared to other western states, I doubt if there are a lot of Mormons in LA or California for that matter. Certainly not in numbers that would make a huge impact in the popular vote on an issue or campaign as they would in say, Utah. Indeed, the reason Prop. 8 passed was due to percentage of African-American and Hispanics that voted for it, upwards towards 70 percent.
But these protesters are not in South Central or East Los Angeles outside Baptist or Catholic churches are they? No, they’re picking on the Mormons because they know can get away with it. After all, who in LA are going stick up for the largely white (although in LA you’ll probably find a lot of Polynesian Mormons), small community with the beliefs everyone, even conservatives, find wacky?
 Like bullies they go after the weak because these largely white homosexuals are scared they might be called bigots and racists if they protested in South Central or East LA (they also might get beat up or shot as well). Yet in their cowardice their bigotry still shows through.
roho on 11 Nov 2008 at 8:28 pm #
Your on target Patroon!………They dare not head off to the black communities with their dribble…. Growing up in the Deep South, I know the black culture, understand it from the fifties to now, and can promiss you that Christian Blacks as well as Atheist Blacks did not vote for “Sugar Britches”! (Growing up a homosexual black has to be a ruff road to travel?)
Perhaps the military of San Francisco Naval Base should treat the Homosexual community with the same kindness that the “Zoot-Suiters” received during WWII after a number of military personel were beaten and robbed while on leave by the zoot-suiters?……..It’s a really funny story, barely touched on in the John Belushi movie “1942″.
Ceecee on 11 Nov 2008 at 10:09 pm #
I am losing respect for the gay activist community because of violent, or just harassing, protests. Like Patroon says, they are bullies and cowards.
Are there any gays out there who want to prove that not all gays are like that? If there are, please speak up now. Please publicly say that you deplore harassing church goers in their churches, pushing little old ladies down, tearing up signs because the signs say something you disagree with, assaults, threats, and vandalism. Please show us that not all gays are like the idiots that do these things. If you don’t, people are going to turn against the gay rights movement. That I can guarantee.
Martin Luther King Jr. did not win the civil rights movement with this kind of activity. If he had used these tactics, the African Americans would still be sitting in the back of the bus. Thank God that he believed in non-violence, so that people could see that African Americans really deserved their rights.
The pro-gay movement is not the same as the civil rights movement for African Americans. Gays can choose to be celibate, if all else fails. Blacks can’t stop being black.
Still, violence, harassment, and vandalism will turn people against your cause. They will be more sympathetic if you are nonviolent, regardless of whether you can or cannot help it.
Trent Hill on 12 Nov 2008 at 4:56 am #
They are protesting the Mormon groups because they had a big role, along with Catholics, in bankrolling the Prop-8 campaign. A handful of middle-class mormon families gave 6 figures to the effort.
Ceecee on 12 Nov 2008 at 6:21 am #
So what if they supported prop-8? That is no reason to do or threaten violence. So they contributed to the Prop-8 campaign. So what? This is a democracy. They have a right to support whatever they want in our free country. If you don’t like it, try again at the next election and if you campaign right, maybe you will convince the majority of voters next time. You can try to convince people of your point of view, you can even protest and demonstrate if you do it peacefully. But don’t threaten anybody, do or advocate violence, destroy property, or stomp on anyone else’s free speech rights.
Disagree if you must, but don’t be disagreeable.
roho on 12 Nov 2008 at 7:33 pm #
Most Social Conservatives are not aware of the “Deep Pockets” of the gay community?…….I’m sure that their wealthy supporters poured a lot more money into their cause? Californication is a vast bastion of “Gay Multimillionares”.
Patroon on 13 Nov 2008 at 3:18 pm #
I wasn’t aware of the LDS deep involvement in the campaign, but more power to them. Just get ready to pay the taxes, that’s all. Perhaps more churches, at least on issue questions, should pay their public policy admission fee.