Author: Chino Blanco
Last Week in Utah: Cleve Jones and a gay bashing
Jennifer Dobner’s AP report in the WaPo: Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington JoSelle Vanderhooft interviews Cleve Jones for QSaltLake here. Deseret News reports (after the break):
New York Marriage Equality: Astroturfing – Courtesy of the Same Ten (Mormon) People
In her report on the New York “pro-marriage” rally, Mormon blogger (and Digital Network Army director) Angela Rockwood (aka Beetle Blogger) suggests that if you are a New Yorker, you’ll want to know about these sites: New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms New Yorkers Family Research Foundation For once, I agree…
The LDS Church, Proposition 8, and the Federal Law of Charities
Brian Galle*: In the days before and after the passage of California’s “Proposition 8,” a ballot initiative barring legal recognition of same-sex marriages in the state, it was widely reported that the LDS Church, together with other religious organizations, played a significant role in supporting the initiative. National attention peaked…
Marriage opponent regrets past, now supports equality
by Dan Aiello Bay Area Reporter Reprinted with permission Chino’s Preface: Fred Karger, of Californians Against Hate fame, recently marked the launch of his new Mormongate.com site with the publication of several never-before-seen internal LDS documents regarding a 1990’s contest in Hawaii over the issue of marriage equality. In the…
Latter-Day Protest? Proposition 8 and Sports
By Dave Zirin x-posted from Edge of Sports with permission. As supporters of Gay Marriage have discovered, it’s never easy to be on the Mormon Church’s enemies list. The Church of Latter-Day Saints backed the anti-Gay Marriage Proposition 8 in California with out-of-state funds, and gave the right a heartbreaking…
Dobson Caves to Evangelicals Who Call Glenn Beck a Cultist
Admittedly, I got busy with the holidays and fell behind in my reading at some of my favorite websites. I figured I could bookmark, spend a couple days getting reacquainted with the wife and kids, and then catch up later. Later was apparently too late: No longer available? Now that’s…
Gary Lawrence: Familiarity breeds contempt (for Mormons)
Gary Lawrence, director of Proposition 8’s Mormon grassroots effort. The Brethren [the top echelon of Mormon leadership] have felt that the best way to organize and pass the Proposition is to have an Ecclesiastical arm and a Grassroots arm to the organization … The senior folks who run the grassroots…