Sentiment against the LDS is running pretty high in certain California circles right now. As much as I admire groups like Mormons for Marriage and Feminist Mormon Housewives, I understand the feeling. Lest I be called a hypocrite for yesterday’s post where I said that bigotry could not be used to fight another type of bigotry, the backlash against black voters “passing” Prop 8 is mistaken, and that’s my main beef with it. Blaming the Mormons (by which I mean their church hierarchy, which poured $22 million into the Yes on 8 campaign) is not.
This week I find myself even more inclined to declare their religion, with its baptism of dead non-Mormons and North American Jesus and magical golden plates, to be a stupid crock of shit; and to cordially invite any Mormons that take offense at this to blow me.
As the late, great George Carlin would point out with great relish: one’s religion is something quite different than race or ethnicity and should hardly fall into the “protected” category of the latter. You are born into and involuntarily remain in this or that ethnic group. It seems sort of unfair to bash anyone for that.
Or to put it more bluntly let us to turn to Dan Savage
The proper response to religious opposition to choice or love or death can be reduced to a series of bumper stickers: Don’t approve of abortion? Don’t have one. Don’t approve of gay marriage? Don’t have one. Don’t approve of physician-assisted suicide? For Christ’s sake, don’t have one. But don’t tell me I can’t have one—each one—because it offends your God.
Fuck your God.
Under the Banner of Heaven is a MUST READ. The South Park episode about the Mormons is equally awesome.
and you really expect respect in return?
you are away with the fairies!!! totally hypocritical post you wrote!
…i wish i could be offended, after all, you are i insulting my peoples but i can’t be.
lds people are not the victims. i’ve yet to hear a good reason why we needed to fight to take away your right to marry.
fuck! (oh, sorry, i never get to cus on my blog
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anyways. i totally understand why you don’t like us. we are kinda weird.
Debbie:
I am actually not gay myself, but I probably speak for a great many gay people when I say that they neither need nor want your respect. All they want are the rights that are due to them as United Stated citizens.
But it’s nice to finally hear one of you people admit that Prop 8 is about the personal repugnance you feel towards homosexuality, instead of hiding behind the flimsy shield of “protecting children” or “traditional marriage”.
Also: “Fairies”? Lolz! Even your pseudo-cusswords exist in some weird Eisenhower-era fantasy version of America.
What is with the yoda-speak???
“totally hypocritical post you wrote.”
suck it, you must.
You are a coward. I don’t see your posts bashing Blacks, Latinos, or other Christian denominations. Mormons made up 5% of the vote, but you lack the spine to call out all your opponents because Mormons are the least well understood and the easiest target. Cowardly …
There’s no greater argument against democracy than blog commenters.
Ya’ll faggots need to step it up!
Nate:
The reason I didn’t write posts bashing those other minorities is because the organizations that represent them didn’t pour tens of millions of dollars into the Yes on 8 campaign. (Well, except for evangelical Christians, but I bash them eevry other day of the week, so.) You can call me all the names you want, but it won’t change the fact that you’re represented by a heirarchy that not only seeks to strip a minority of a right that they SHOULD have, but one that they HAD been enjoying for months at no one’s detriment — indeed, it was bringing much-needed tourist revenue into my state.
You are no better than the bigots who tried to keep black people and women from voting, and history will regard you with the same mixture of scorn and pity that it does them.
But if you want to call me a bigot because I think your religion is fucking stupid, I suppose that’s fair. You know what the difference between you and I is? I would never use my bigotry as a reason to take your civil rights away, then hide behind the excuse of “protecting the children” or “traditional Christianity”.
The LDS should be remembering its own history of persecution, and reaching out to minorities, not joining in the dogpile against them. Shame on you.