defriendings

[fpb]

I have defriended asakiyume and sartorias over their repulsive reaction to the defeat of their party on Proposition 8 in California. Their reaction was to blame it all on the supposed interference of a particular religious group. The truth, in fact, is that all major religious groups in the state campaigned aggressively for the proposition, and that voters against it included a large majority of black voters. However, to blame Catholics is unfashionable, to blame Jews un-PC, and to blame Muslims unhealthy. So these ladies, in common it seems with a lot of their kind of persons, managed to find the perfect novel religious scapegoats: the Mormons. Now I have no sympathy for Mormonism as a religion, but I can tell scapegoating when it offends my nostrils, and I was utterly revolted to find people whom I really believed decent human beings indulge in this kind of talk. Any other person on my f-list subscribing to Mormon conspiracy theories, please defriend yourselves and save yourselves some grief.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

That's OK. Some of us like to be able to look in the mirror without throwing up.

[wade-scott.livejournal.com]

What? Common decency? Looking at the facts instead of the propaganda? For shame.

I figure if the IRS wants to take away our tax exempt status for taking a moral stand on an issue, then so be it. We'll deal. After all, it's not the first time in our history that the government has tried to legislate our morals. However, in a bitter twist of irony, we would be the only ones "punished," when the Church itself wasn't the largest donor and Prop 8 was taken to the pulpit of many other congregations.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

That is exactly the case. You see, if they went after, say, the Catholic Church, that would come much too close to suggesting that the mostly-Catholic Latinos had done something wrong, and that would never do: the Latino vote must stay within the Dem corral. Ditto with Baptist and other Protestant churches and the black vote. And in real life, it was blacks and latinos who decided the vote.

[wade-scott.livejournal.com]

Will you do me a favor and cite your source? I know I'm going to be battling this one socially for a while.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/proposition-8-e.html
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/voters-supported-black-2218703-latino-proposition
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10909847?source=most_emailed
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/30/proposition_8/

Watch for a swift resurgence of racism among the homosexual community.

[8bitbard.livejournal.com]

I've already seen one instance of a gay man going racist.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Mind you, when they speak of black homophobia, they don't just kid around. I am told that violent assaults against gay men in Washington DC are common. Anyway, another instance of the collapse of identity politics.

[wade-scott.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And to return in kind:

The LDS Church's official response: http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/church-issues-statement-on-proposition-8-protest

And the sort of "reaching across the aisle" I like to see:
http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/catholic-bishop-decries-religious-bigotry-against-mormons