Mormon Church Enters California Gay Marriage Fight

To: Ray in Atlanta, GA You are a bigoted idiot! Take the Confederate flag out of your truck window, go back to 6th grade & learn how to spell!

I just want to know something. If there is a God, and if this God sees homosexuality as an evil sin, then why did he create gay people to exist on the planet with the rest of us? If he is truly almighty and powerful and has the ability to do anything and everything, then he could've created humans and made it impossible for them to physically, mentally, and emotionally feel love for someone of the same gender. But there are gay people living and existing at this very moment. So that just shows that God wasn't too concerned about that aspect of the human race. He obviously allowed for it. If he truly has all the power in the universe, he could've ended it all a long time ago. But obviously he didn't. So he obviously has nothing againt gay people if he created them with his own hands. So if God can love them and accept them, why can't everyone else?

Legal recognition? thats called domestic partnership. Marriage has always been between a man and a woman. It recognizes the great sacrafice that is made when the two join in a sacred union. There is honor and sacrafice when a man and a woman marry. they are two deeply different creatures, when married they put aside the differences and make a sacrafice that a gay/lesbian couple cannot make. An honorable couple has two parts. The man sacrafices his strength and time to provide for a new family up to and including his life if needed. the woman sacrafices her body to bring the next generation to life, all of her time and energy is devoted to raising her children. This is not something a gay couple can do. they are the same and cannot bring children into a home that is how nature or god has always intended. There is no great sacrafice, with no sacrafice there is no honor, with no honor there is no worthiness of marrige.

The church is defending what it knows to be right, just as every one else of various opinions are doing. The best thing is not to bash church opinions and involvement or gay people, but to positively support whatever opinion we may have. It seems that yes on prop 8 people are not anti-gay, they just hope to preserve the family that all children might have a male father and female mother.

How ironic that the Mormon church should dare to comment on public morality. The church, as founded by Joseph Smith looked much more like the criminal, polygamist cult of Warren Jeff's than the corporate cult of today. I am a former member who has educated himself with the numerous academic investigations of the church's history that are now available on the internet and in bookstores. (The PBS special is a great place to start). The true story of the church and its beginnings is vastly different from what has been presented to the dogmatic "believers". Many church leaders are aware of this and continue to mislead their followers. The church should look to cleaning its own house before pretending to be a bastion of morality. The Mormon's sick brand of blind obedience and twisted view of reality is far more threatening to humanity than the legal recognition of love between two people.

Mormons believe that Christs church has been restored to the earth as it was formerly and is currently being run by Christ himself through prophets and apostles. They also believe that Christ will come again. One this basis, they feel that it is their responsibility to warn against sin (including homosexuality), and invite all to believe in Christ, repent of their sins, be baptized, and remain faithful to the end. No one is excluded from the invitation. They also feel that societies fundamental unit is the family as defined by a husband and a wife and their children. Expectations for the Church to stay quite about their belief would also assume that the Church is content with observing the deterioration of the family. The LDS Church is not an institution of complacency howbeit they are not looking to alienate anyone. I respect them for standing for what they believe despite our current trend of political correctness. And when Christ comes again they will be blameless.

I don't think it is wise to try to revoke their tax exemt status. Currently the LDS church mingles in civil and political issues very little. Once their tax exempt status is revoked, they will be free to enter the civil/ political arena full force. This is something you don't want. Their money and membership will make them by far the most influential political lobbiest in the country. They would become the whale in the bathtub. Although their involvement in this issue is irritating to some, it doesn't happen very often. Whatever you do, don't revoke their tax exempt status; the one thing keeping them mostly on the sidelines.

Good God!! Is there anything sadder than a gay Mormon? I've bedded quite a few of them and they tend to be great sex; but their church is another matter entirely. I was surprised to note the amendment support letter is to be read to their congregations at worship services. This amendment attempt is a CIVIL matter. Someone should look at their tax exempt status... What happened to the separation of church and state?

Too many people don't realize the religious part of marriage is just a ceremony. What we gays are trying to get is our government to recognize two men or women as a legal entity. I have yet to hear HRC or others say just that. More people might be for gay marriage if they realized it is just a legal term and has nothing to do with any religion in any way.

Just another examle of church interfering with politics by pressuring it's congregates to vote a certain way. A real church, in our idea of federal democracy, shouldn't even have an opinion about earthly legislative matters. The Mormon "church" should be relegated back to the cult status it had before becoming a tax-exempt institution.