LDS to push marriage amendment - Deseret News

[ToeBot]

I guess this isn't surprising, but it's unusual for the Mormons to make a political endorsement of this sort. They usually exercise their political influence in a much more covert manor while hiding behind a veneer of impartiality. I believe the last time they did something of this sort was regarding the Equal Rights Amendment. Guess which side they took on that bit of legislation.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635210773,00.html

[Swede Atlanta]

1. Tax-exempt status

They should lose their tax-exempt status which for the empire that is the LDS, that would be huge. The LDS is as much a huge corporation as it is a "church". While I am not a Mormon, I grew up in the inter-mountain area where they prevailed as the big gorilla on the block.

[TriSec]

2. Perfect for the Mittster.

Terrific....and with our governor "Mitt the Twit" running for president in 2008, they already have a pander-bear to play to the right.

[cmd]

3. One nation, under God, with liberty and just for ?.

What part of the word ALL do they not understand? The right wing can stand and pledge and break that pledge (under God) faster than a wink.

[MuseRider]

4. Funny this would come about this week.

Just today I was asked to come back to the church. I said no. They asked why. I told them that there were many reasons but the main reason is that I am working for equality for LGBT people and I was not going to stop that because I believed it was the right thing to do. I felt that I would not be welcome and I would not belong to anything that did not support that cause. Their answer was, OK you are right it would not work out. Easiest time I ever had ending one of those conversations.

[MikeNearMcChord]

5. Questions from the peanut gallery

How will the Defence of Marriage Act, be enforced? Domestic spying in everybody's home? Will there be pentalies for improper sexual positions?
:shrug:

[Maat]

8. The Marriage Amendment won't have anything to do with ..

what two consenting adults do in the bedroom; those are sodomy laws. State sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional in "Lawrence v. Texas" in 2000.

This Amendment, which I will fight with everything I have, has to do with civil contractual rights. Marriage is like a default contract. In the code, it is said, "Marriage is a civil contract." It provides for divorce and what happens to assets after the death of a spouse, if the couple in question did not provide for things via agreements or wills, codicils or trusts.

This Amendment will permanently deny a class of citizens equal protection of the law and the fundamental right of marriage. It is unconscionable.

[Dr.Phool]

6. I guess they don't want any GLBT polygamists running around.

:evilgrin:

[nealmhughes]

7. So no more magic drawers

if they get married in Canada or Spain or Denmark or....?