No on Prop 8

So California has this Proposition 8 on the ballot this year. Voting YES means you, essentially, define a marriage as that between a man and a woman and nothing else. This year, the LDS aka Mormon Church decided to flaunt their power and do everything they can to support this issue because, well, their stance is "you can be gay, but you're not allowed to kiss, you certainly can't get married to someone of the same gender and you need to do whatever it takes (i.e. shock therapy, marriage to the opposite gender) to cure yourself of this disease (yes, it is treated like a desease).

So the LDS Church read manifestos from the pulpit (coming from The Prophet at the headquarters in SLC, Utah), donates money ($3k that they will admit to), asked others to donate money, and enlisted volunteers in Utah to call Californians to remind them of this pressing matter. Yet they will not admit to the real issue: they really, really dislike gays and use matters such as this as a way to hate in a civilized manner. I have a million stories that support this, but that's for another time.

And their excuse for their political push (despite being tax exempt) is that "oh, gays will request to be married in our sacred temple, we will deny them because of our strict rules about the temple and they will sue us." And they claim this is a "moral issue" not a political one, hence skating around the tax exempt status. The LDS Church is run by current/former lawyers and has endless money so I'm sure they will be fine on both of these matters.

Anyway, I wrote to Katie and told her what's going on here in Utah with regard to her State. I am sure she was already doing something about this, but yeah, here she is, out there fighting while I'm taking some Breakfast Club Trivia Quiz...