Give it all you got Fred!!!

Find out more about Fred Karger at: CaliforniansAgainstHate!

I received a call from Reed earlier this year. He was coming out to San Francisco to film all the activities around the oral arguments being made before the California Supreme Court in San Francisco in the case to overturn Proposition 8.

Having played a very active role in uncovering the massive involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) in last year’s Prop 8 campaign, Reed asked me to be in his documentary.

Read more of this article by Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, at the HuffPo!

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Elder Dallin H. Oaks refers to gay marriage as an “alleged civil right” in remarks prepared for delivery at Brigham Young University-Idaho, a speech church officials describe as a significant commentary on current threats to religious freedom.

In an advance copy provided to The Associated Press, Oaks suggests that atheists and others are seeking to intimidate people of faith and silence their voices in the public square.

“The extent and nature of religious devotion in this nation is changing,” said Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a church governing body. “The tide of public opinion in favor of religion is receding, and this probably portends public pressures for laws that will impinge on religious freedom.”

Oaks’ address comes as gay-rights activists mount a legal challenge to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that overturned gay marriage in California. His comments about civil rights are likely to anger gay rights activists who consider the struggle to enact same-sex marriage laws as a major civil rights cause.

In an interview Monday before the speech, Oaks said he did not consider it provocative to compare the treatment of Mormons in the election’s aftermath to that of blacks in the civil rights era, and said he stands by the analogy.

“It may be offensive to some — maybe because it hadn’t occurred to them that they were putting themselves in the same category as people we deplore from that bygone era,” he said.

Read more of this Associated Press post by clicking here.

Now this is amazing.  White people, (the LDS church has very few black members, I’ll get to that in a minute) claiming their struggle for religious freedom (and by religious freedom they must mean spending tens of millions of tax-exempt dollars on supporting a political agenda and dictating who is entitled marry), are being oppressed by LGBT Americans, who don’t have the same rights or equality?

This is so wrong at so many levels I’m not sure where to start.  Just in case you aren’t familiar, the Mormon Church used to preach segregation.  It was their firm belief that being a person of color was a punishment from God and people of color were lesser than white people…and that was up until 1978!  It was in that year former President Jimmy Carter threatened the LDS church with taxation if they did not stop preaching segregation, and amazingly enough, God spoke to the elders, and within weeks of the taxation threat, told them being a person of color was no longer a punishment from God, therefore they should be accepted into the church.

Secondly, how is anyone, who enjoys full benefits of marriage, employment, housing, etc….you know, all the rights, liberties and freedoms offered to everyone in America except for those of us in the LBGT community, going to claim they are being oppressed…and compare their oppression to that of what people of color experienced during and prior to the Civil Rights Movement?

This statement is not only stupid and delusional, but it’s extremely disrespectful towards anyone of color, and it demonstrates the lengths people will go to in their attempt to prevent American citizens who are a member of the LGBT community from ever enjoying full equality and maintain our second class citizenship.

It is with my most sincere hope, the community of color in this country stands up against this distasteful ignorance.  I sincerely hope this becomes the straw that broke the camels back with the Mormon church.  Hopefully Americans are smart enough to see through blatantly false and degrading statements like this and recognize that this mentality is twisted and wrong.

I never quite stop being amazed at the hate, intolerance and bigotry that comes from those who oppose equality for LGBT citizens, but this is over the top, and I again hope, that over the top, the Mormon church finds an edge, with a very steep decline that drops a long way down.

Elder Bruce C. Hafen, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, spoke at the 19th annual conference of Evergreen International, a nonprofit group that helps Mormons “overcome homosexual behavior” and “diminish same-sex attraction.” The event was held at the LDS Church’s Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City.

Hafen promised attendees, “If you are faithful, on resurrection morning — and maybe even before then — you will rise with normal attractions for the opposite sex.”

Whenever the devil — whom Hafen referred to as “the adversary” — tries to “convince you that you are hopelessly ‘that way,’ so that acting out your feelings is inevitable, he is lying,” Hafen said. “He is the father of lies.”

Read the entire post at: SLTrib.com!

The group has stated the demonstration is intended as a peaceful rally to encourage dialogue between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the LGBT community.

This event will mark the third demonstration since gay couple, Matt Aune and Derek Jones were detained cited for trespassing on the church-owned Main Street Plaza in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 9th.

For more information, click here to visit the organizations website.

Read the rest at Lavender Newswire!

Yes! The Mormons have placed an ad on Two Lesbos Goin At It. This is fantabulous. Wish mommy were alive. She’d be so proud of us.

Check it out by clicking here.

Response My beliefs about marriage is beautifully stated in The Family – A Proclamation To The World, a document published by the leaders of our church back in 1995. I am going to include it here on my blog.

Read it at Donny.com!

Its about time the “gay community” GETS IT, The “Behavior” is what was Voted Down. Most people don’t accept this Immorial Behavior. By packaging the behavior as normal and puting it on diplay, only reminds people how repulsive there behavior is. And if they continue to use the TOLERANCE card then they are going to be very unhappy. As the gays get Judges to sanction their actions, the majority will continue to loose faith in our System of Government. What will protect our rights then? AK47? So be careful for what you ask for! Question: Chicken or the Egg. Did hate crimes start to increase, before or after the gays started insisting that their behavior was normal and acceptible? Maybe its the behavior that should be recognized for what it is. Instead of TOLERANCE how about Traditional Rational behavior. May GOD continue to bless our country.

Basically, this post is saying if gay people are beaten or shot, it’s because they dare hold hands in public or use the government to help secure their equal rights.

Read the rest at Land of Savages!

The memo, dated March 4, 1997, provides insight into the late LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley’s strategy for opposing same-sex marriage. It describes a meeting in which Hinckley gives the go ahead, but urged caution. According to the memo, “he (President Hinckley) also said the (LDS) Church should be in a coalition and not out front by itself.”

Read more at Deep Thoughts!

Make no mistake about it, Prop 8 is theocracy. A church used its financial clout and organizational ability to push forward its moral agenda. Do you really want to live like a Mormon? I don’t.