defriendings

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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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[cheyinka]

That's fascinating that it's being blamed on the Mormons, honestly, because I've seen that in a couple places, but both times it was someone who was raised Mormon saying it, and I thought it was a matter of, I dunno, "the grass is always less green on the side of the fence I came from"?

But, then again, the Mormons are the ones with the commercials in the US about "family is forever"...

Anyway, yes, like ani_bester said, the only way the various anti-same-sex-marriage propositions and initiatives could have passed is if at least some of those who voted for Obama also voted for those ballot measures. And that's actually part of what filled me with such unhappiness to realize - people who voted for Obama also voted the way I would have on such a proposition, but generally did not vote the way I would have on any "life issue" propositions, and the latter (to me) are more important than the former.