Remember – faux terrorist attacks aren’t cool, even to Mormons

OK – I think people have a reason to be legitimately pissed at the Mormon church having it’s members spend so much time and money to ban gay marriage in California. But that’s no excuse to make fake terrorist attacks by mailing in white powder to Mormon temples.

All that does is reinforce the “wah, we’re a prosecuted people” complex, and makes the powder senders look like jerks.

Turns out Prop 8 hurting small business

I hadn’t thought about what California Proposition 8 might have to do with business, until my friend NYPinTA (I’ll leave the acronyms up to you) pointed out that there are businesses that will be negatively effected by Propsition 8’s likely passing:

“I have done a gay wedding every week,” he said. “And so it’s very disheartening, because other business is very slow.”

Even as opponents of the measure officially conceded defeat on Thursday, California business owners — particularly those in the marriage business — were trying to determine how many wedding cakes would now go unsold and how many tuxedos unrented.

Arturo Cobos, a manager at Kard Zone in the city’s traditionally gay Castro neighborhood, said he had done “big sales” of same-sex wedding cards and other trinkets since marriages began in June, but had recently stopped stocking new goods.

“We were afraid that they would pass Proposition 8,” Mr. Bobos said, “and that’s exactly what happened.”

Irony. In the end, it was economic power that started the civil rights movement going with the ban on buses – makes you wonder if the same will be the case here. Money does talk.

California Prop 8 still too close to call

California Proposition 8 which would define marriage as only between a man and a woman is still undecided.

Perhaps that tells the mood of the country more than anything else right now.

Does this No on Prop 8 go to far – attacking Mormons?

I’m against Proposition 8. I’m also a Mormon. Which makes my own position difficult – as a Mormon, I’m suppose to follow the leadership of my church. I’m also expected to pray and reach my own conclusions and act by my own conscious.

Yeah, it can be a problem some days. Where does the line between “obedience” and “blind obedience” fall? So I’m once again left in a dilemma with this advertisement opposed to Proposition 8 in California, which out outlaw same sex marriage:

Woah. On the one hand, it’s true: the Mormon church has put a lot of money into CA to get this bill passed, and they are aiming to take away marriage rights to same-sex couples. On the other hand, I’m very disturbed with the “Mormons baaad” message it shows.

Turns out Prop 8 may fail – thanks to a little help

Here’s an interesting idea. If you ask people “Do you think that marriage should be between a man and a woman”, they’ll say yes a little over 50% of the time. However, if you ask them “Should marraige rights be removed from homosexuals”, the majority of people will say “No.”

So is it possible that California Attorney General Jerry Brown purposely phrased California’s Proposition 8 that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California” to help it fail?

If so, Mr. Brown may be more clever than gay marriage opponents knew.