As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I support same-sex marriages.
Even though I don’t understand homosexuals, I support their rights as human beings. God created them, just as he did everyone else, but he endowed them with different feelings of attraction and intimacy.
All humans, regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation, deserve the same protection and rights under the law.
Married heterosexual couples are protected in issues of joint ownership, government or workplace benefits, and making life and death decisions for a spouse, and it is discriminatory to judge a person unworthy of these same rights simply because of who they are.
Being different should never be the core issue when determining if someone is worthy of being treated as an equal child of God. Jesus taught us to love one another, to bear one another’s burdens, to visit the sick, the poor and the fatherless. Never has he charged us to reject anyone.
When we tell someone they are unworthy of the same human rights and protections we enjoy simply because they live and act differently than we do, I wonder if Jesus is pleased with how we are handling this issue.
Carlyle Potter
St. George, Utah
By Permission
Amen.
My hope is that Jennifer Kerns, or Jeff Flint, or Frank Schubert might notice this letter from a Mormon father who wrote it because he wants to do right by the son he loves.
And I only mention Jennifer, Jeff and Frank because if they won’t notice, at least Google will, and I’m damn close to getting Google to rank my “Schubert Flint” diaries above their own lame website.
Check intrade on Prop 8. It’s toast. Got about as much chance as McCain when it comes to winning in California. All I’m doing now is celebrating the humanity of it all.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/25/BA5511V2DO.DTL
The fearmongering and fabrications are coming out of the Yes on 8 campaign thick and fast now.
http://laist.com/2008/07/25/gay_marriage_ban_proposition_langua.php
http://boifromtroy.com/?p=7394
Here’s what Prop 8 is now going to look like on the ballot:
http://laist.com/2008/07/23/lapd_cheif_bratton_donates_money_to.php
Josiah Greene over at the California Majority Report calls out the Yes on 8 campaign for their kindergarten lies:
http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&aid=3275&ptid=9
Mormons believe in marriage “for all eternity” (LDS Temple marriages are believed to extend beyond death and can involve more than one wife in the hereafter).
It’s this belief that makes this recent letter to the Salt Lake Tribune so friggin’ hilarious:
Sounds a bit like a variation on this middle eastern theme:
I wonder how the Salt Lake Tribune letter writer intended to enforce the thing?
I came across something today about Ali Gomaa, Egypt’s grand mufti, and three Koran verses he referred to when arguing that Muslims are free to choose a religion other than Islam:
I wonder what Gomaa would say about the involvement of American churches in the Prop 8 battle?