In 1980, the Church released a pamphlet against the Equal Rights Amendment. It included a fear that the amendment would encourage a “blurring” of gender roles as well as forcing “states…to legally recognize and protect [same-sex] marriages” because “if the law must be as undiscriminating concerning sex as it is toward race, [then]…laws outlawing wedlock ...
As we enter a new election cycle, here’s a link to the Church’s statement about the Church itself being “neutral” to matters of “party politics,” even as it encourages its membership to be responsible civic citizens and voters. The caveats are that the Church does: Request candidates for office — “not to imply that their ...
Marvin Perkins is described by Mormon blog Times & Seasons as “a Latter-day Saint music producer who is currently the Public Affairs Co-chair for the Genesis Group and who has worked to nurture understanding between African-Americans and Latter-day Saints and attack misconceptions.” Here’s Marvin at T&S: Even couched in kind tones, today we find many ...
Thirteen states have signed on as “friends-of-the-court” to assert that defining marriage is a state issue rather than a federal issue. If gay marriage comes to pass federally, they promise to break away and become colonies. (kidding.) The irony is that in order to argue for a state’s right to determine the definition of marriage, ...
Fred Karger and I worked together on establishing the NOM-LDS connection. Now he’s the GOP’s first declared 2012 presidential candidate and has just released his first ad. I’d love to see Fred debate Mike, Mitt, Sarah and the rest of the (more-or-less anti-gay) 2012 Republican field. Campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire is the surest ...
A friend sent me a link to this letter in The Daily Universe: Viewpoint: Defending Proposition 8 — It’s time to admit the reasons The short version for those who don’t want to follow the link: None of the crappy reasons given by Mormons and the Mormon leadership for passing Proposition 8 even made it ...
So, just to keep people apprised, I wanted to lay out the arguments of the supporters of Prop 8 in their motion for a stay, plus provide some of my own commentary. They say Walker ignored the following “facts”: Views: 998 ...
This is the first (of six) of Walker’s dismissals of Prop 8 supporters’ claims. The first claim was that “tradition” is enough to maintain marriage as between a man and woman. Walker states that previous court rulings indicate that an “ancient lineage of a classification” does not make a classification timelessly rational. “The state must ...
Frederick Mark Gedicks Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 18, pp. 901-914, 2010 God of Our Fathers, Gods for Ourselves: Fundamentalism and Postmodern Belief: ” … there is also an ethical reason for wariness. One should pause at imposing absolute truth on those to ...
Fred Karger, Dustin Lance Black, and Linda Stay discuss the film 8: The Mormon Proposition and Mormon involvement in the Prop 8 campaign generally. If you’ve got 16 minutes to spare, you’re welcome to listen in. P.S. Pls don’t razz me about the graphics. It’s a radio interview. I just pulled whatever images happened to ...
Ralph Hancock started his three-part series at Times & Seasons by sounding the gay threat alarm, but couldn’t be bothered to actually discuss the nature of the threat, apparently in a rush to get to his third post, in which it’s explained that the real danger lies in something called secular liberal fundamentalism. The series ...
Item #20: Late Contribution Violation. In the Matter of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FPPC No. 08/735. Failed to timely report making late non-monetary contributions totaling $36,928 in connection with the November 4, 2008, General Election, in violation of Government Code Section 84203 (13 counts). Total Proposed Penalty: $5,539. Salt Lake Tribune: ...