National Day of Protest

This Saturday, November 15th, is a national day of protest against the passage of prop 8.  If you don't feel inclined to participate, maybe this little piece from the LDS Church will help prod you into action:

Church Issues Statement on Proposition 8 Protest


The Church issued the following statement today:

It is disturbing that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being singled out for speaking up as part of its democratic right in a free election.

Members of the Church in California and millions of others from every faith, ethnicity and political affiliation who voted for Proposition 8 exercised the most sacrosanct and individual rights in the United States — that of free expression and voting.

While those who disagree with our position on Proposition 8 have the right to make their feelings known, it is wrong to target the Church and its sacred places of worship for being part of the democratic process. [emphasis mine]

Once again, we call on those involved in the debate over same-sex marriage to act in a spirit of mutual respect and civility towards each other. No one on either side of the question should be vilified, harassed or subject to erroneous information.

Because they feel it is wrong to "target" their churches, that makes it so?  When looking through their various media statements, so many of them have declarative statements such as this that the reader must take at face value.  I have news for the the LDS church - your leadership encouraged your membership to back this discriminatory initiative.  Your church membership all across the nation responded like no other organization in both money and time spent to successfully spread untruths about the consequences of this proposition.  So no, it is NOT wrong for us to go to your door step with our message that we will not be silenced.  We will be heard until the basic right of marriage between two consenting individuals of any gender is permitted in civil law.

I finally found a site that has a well organized list of the protests planned for Saturday.  It is evolving by the minute as the details are hammered out, but here is the website.  Please plan on attending one near you:

http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/

And finally, if you need to know why we fight this good fight, watch this video from MSNBC:

Keith Olberman Prop 8 Special Comment

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