No More Mr. Nice Gay?

Sounds like the Proposition 8 battle may just be warming up. We'll see if this new protest has legs.

Mormon Church Steps Into The Prop. 8 Battle - LA Times - 09 Oct 08

"During Wednesday's taped satellite broadcast, church leaders asked for 30 members from each California congregation to donate four hours a week to the campaign. They also called on young married couples and single Mormons to use the Internet, text messaging, blogging and other forms of computer technology to help pass the initiative, saying the church has created a new Web site — PreservingMarriage.org — with materials they can download and post on their own social networking sites.

Church elder L. Whitney Clayton, who has been working as a liaison between the LDS leaders and the Proposition 8 campaign, said before the event that it was meant to energize Mormons for the weeks remaining before Election Day. 'It's a political campaign, and time is short and there's a lot to do.'

Along with recruiting Mormons to work in California, church members from outside the state have been asked to call friends and family at home in California to encourage support for the measure, according to Clayton. He said many students attending church-owned universities have asked how they might help and could be enlisted to make calls.

'In California, the phone trees are up and running. We just want to be able to help, and one of the things we can do is we can organize,' Clayton said in an interview Wednesday. Officially, the Mormon church is politically neutral and does not endorse individual candidates or political parties."

Catholics, Mormons Allied to Pass Prop. 8 - SFGate.com - 10 Nov 08

"Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons. Niederauer had made critical inroads into improving Catholic-Mormon relations while he was Bishop of Salt Lake City for 11 years. And now he asked them for help on Prop. 8, the ballot measure that sought to ban same-sex marriages in California.

The June letter from Niederauer drew in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and proved to be a critical move in building a multi-religious coalition - the backbone of the fundraising, organizing and voting support for the successful ballot measure. By bringing together Mormons and Catholics, Niederauer would align the two most powerful religious institutions in the Prop. 8 battle."

The proposition won and the protests against the Mormon, Catholic and other supportive churches started up.

At Least 400 Protest Outside Mormon Church, Thousands More in Sacramento - SFGate.com - 10 Nov 08

"The gathering follows several similar events around the Bay Area and California. Earlier today, more than 400 people gathered outside the distinctive Mormon Temple in Oakland to protest the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' support of Proposition 8.

That gathering prompted the Highway Patrol to shut down two Highway 13 ramps to protect pedestrians. The ramps at Lincoln Avenue and Joaquin Miller Road reopened around 2 p.m. And amid chants of 'Stop Mormon hate' and 'Enough is enough,' many protesters worried that they had been complacent before the Nov. 4 election. A previous protest outside the Mormon Temple on Oct. 25 drew only about 50 people."

"In Southern California, about 1,000 gay-rights advocates gathered outside the large Saddleback Church in Lake Forest (Orange County) to protest the evangelical congregation's involvement in passing Proposition 8. An estimated 10,000 backers of gay and lesbian marriage gathered Saturday in San Diego."

Thousands in Salt Lake City Protest LDS Stance On Same-Sex Marriage - Salt Lake City Tribune - 08 Nov 08

"More than 3,000 people swarmed downtown Salt Lake City to march past the LDS temple and church headquarters, protesting Mormon involvement in the campaign for California's Proposition 8. The measure, which defined marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman, passed this week.

A sea of signs in City Creek Park, where the march began, screamed out messages including, 'I didn't vote on your marriage,' 'Mormons once persecuted . . . Now persecutors,' and 'Jesus said love everyone.' Others read, 'Proud of my two moms' and 'Protect traditional marriage. Ban divorce.'"

One of the backlash sites.

MormonsStoleOurRights.com

The subject of this post, "No More Mr. Nice Gay", is lifted from this CafePress.com t-shirt and bumpersticker site which is a link lifted from the MormonsStoleOurRights.com site. Hey! It's the Internet! :)

No More Mr. Nice Gay?

Sounds like the Proposition 8 battle may just be warming up. We'll see if this new protest has legs.

Mormon Church Steps Into The Prop. 8 Battle - LA Times - 09 Oct 08

"During Wednesday's taped satellite broadcast, church leaders asked for 30 members from each California congregation to donate four hours a week to the campaign. They also called on young married couples and single Mormons to use the Internet, text messaging, blogging and other forms of computer technology to help pass the initiative, saying the church has created a new Web site — PreservingMarriage.org — with materials they can download and post on their own social networking sites.

Church elder L. Whitney Clayton, who has been working as a liaison between the LDS leaders and the Proposition 8 campaign, said before the event that it was meant to energize Mormons for the weeks remaining before Election Day. 'It's a political campaign, and time is short and there's a lot to do.'

Along with recruiting Mormons to work in California, church members from outside the state have been asked to call friends and family at home in California to encourage support for the measure, according to Clayton. He said many students attending church-owned universities have asked how they might help and could be enlisted to make calls.

'In California, the phone trees are up and running. We just want to be able to help, and one of the things we can do is we can organize,' Clayton said in an interview Wednesday. Officially, the Mormon church is politically neutral and does not endorse individual candidates or political parties."

Catholics, Mormons Allied to Pass Prop. 8 - SFGate.com - 10 Nov 08

"Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons. Niederauer had made critical inroads into improving Catholic-Mormon relations while he was Bishop of Salt Lake City for 11 years. And now he asked them for help on Prop. 8, the ballot measure that sought to ban same-sex marriages in California.

The June letter from Niederauer drew in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and proved to be a critical move in building a multi-religious coalition - the backbone of the fundraising, organizing and voting support for the successful ballot measure. By bringing together Mormons and Catholics, Niederauer would align the two most powerful religious institutions in the Prop. 8 battle."

The proposition won and the protests against the Mormon, Catholic and other supportive churches started up.

At Least 400 Protest Outside Mormon Church, Thousands More in Sacramento - SFGate.com - 10 Nov 08

"The gathering follows several similar events around the Bay Area and California. Earlier today, more than 400 people gathered outside the distinctive Mormon Temple in Oakland to protest the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' support of Proposition 8.

That gathering prompted the Highway Patrol to shut down two Highway 13 ramps to protect pedestrians. The ramps at Lincoln Avenue and Joaquin Miller Road reopened around 2 p.m. And amid chants of 'Stop Mormon hate' and 'Enough is enough,' many protesters worried that they had been complacent before the Nov. 4 election. A previous protest outside the Mormon Temple on Oct. 25 drew only about 50 people."

"In Southern California, about 1,000 gay-rights advocates gathered outside the large Saddleback Church in Lake Forest (Orange County) to protest the evangelical congregation's involvement in passing Proposition 8. An estimated 10,000 backers of gay and lesbian marriage gathered Saturday in San Diego."

Thousands in Salt Lake City Protest LDS Stance On Same-Sex Marriage - Salt Lake City Tribune - 08 Nov 08

"More than 3,000 people swarmed downtown Salt Lake City to march past the LDS temple and church headquarters, protesting Mormon involvement in the campaign for California's Proposition 8. The measure, which defined marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman, passed this week.

A sea of signs in City Creek Park, where the march began, screamed out messages including, 'I didn't vote on your marriage,' 'Mormons once persecuted . . . Now persecutors,' and 'Jesus said love everyone.' Others read, 'Proud of my two moms' and 'Protect traditional marriage. Ban divorce.'"

One of the backlash sites.

MormonsStoleOurRights.com

The subject of this post, "No More Mr. Nice Gay", is lifted from this CafePress.com t-shirt and bumpersticker site which is a link lifted from the MormonsStoleOurRights.com site. Hey! It's the Internet! :)