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When Mormons attack: Illinois & Civil Unions

March 4, 2009

The Mormon Church has decided that a bill in Illinois that will be considered tomorrow morning has to be defeated. Why? Because if it is voted out of committee and passes Illinois will join the ranks of the very few states that try to recognize the rights of their gay, lesbian and transgendered citizens.
And since [...]

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Mormon Church: 190K spent on Prop 8

February 2, 2009

Now that it’s facing an investigation into it’s behaviour prior to the passage of Prop 8, it looks like the Mormon church has decided to fess up:
The Mormon church has revealed in a campaign filing that the church spent nearly $190,000 to help pass Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that banned gay marriage in [...]

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Anti-Mormon? Religious Hate Crime? My Ass!

December 4, 2008

Not long after the passage of Prop 8 I wrote this post about boycotting pro Prop 8 businesses. Since then I’ve been accused of being anti-Mormon and told that my support for such boycotts is, in effect, a hate crime.
Bullshit.
Mormon owned businesses that supported Prop 8 are not being boycotted because they believe that [...]

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Religious leaders upset over Prop 8 Protests

November 8, 2008

Just days after succeeding at removing the civil rights of gay people, the Mormon church has issued a statement calling for “mutual respect” and declaring that “no one on either side of the question should be vilified, harassed or subject to erroneous information”.
This from the group that donated $20 million of a total of [...]

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Boycott the Mormons

November 7, 2008

While much ado is being made about the overwhelming support of prop 8 by black voters in California, there is little ado being made about getting even with the Mormons (aka: that huge group of white people who donated $20 million to passing Prop 8 ) for seeing to it that gay Californians lost their [...]

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Bogus Christmas card sent to SC Republicans

December 31, 2007

Election 2008 is looking to be quite entertaining with Republican voters in South Carolina receiving a bogus Christmas card from a yet unknown group of people. Alleging to be from Mitt Romney and paid for by the Mormon temple in Boston, Massachusetts, the card quotes from the Book of Mormon.
One such passage is the [...]

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Bigotry: Bad for me, good for you.

December 7, 2007

What do you call a man that protests against being the victim of bigotry who clearly expresses bigotry towards others?
Mitt Romney.
In a speech touted as being along the lines of the one delivered by JFK in Dallas Mitt brings up Mormonism once by name, then proceeds to tell us how we shouldn’t concern ourselves with [...]

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