Catholics for H8

[daddytodd]

OK, I'm like the LAST guy in the world interested in sticking up for the Mormons.

But, really, in light of this statement, isn't it time for Prop H8 opponents to start picketing the Catholic Church as well?

A brief quote:
"Catholics stand in solidarity with our Mormon brothers and sisters in support of traditional marriage — the union of one man and one woman — that has been the major building block of Western civilization for millennia.

"The ProtectMarriage coalition, which led the successful campaign to pass Proposition 8, was an historic alliance of people from every faith and ethnicity. LDS were included — but so were Catholics and Jews, Evangelicals and Orthodox, African-Americans and Latinos, Asians and Anglos.

"Bigoted attacks on Mormons for the part they played in our coalition are shameful and ignore the reality that Mormon voters were only a small part of the groundswell that supported Proposition 8."
                                      --Bishop William Weigand, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

Picket ALL churches/synagogues/mosques/temples that conspired together to steal our rights. Fair is fair!

Comments

[stokeydoke.livejournal.com]

but it so much easier to march around the temple than go to rome and do the vatican......

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

There's Catholic churches EVERYWHERE. You don't have to go to, like, the main one...

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

LDS supporters donated way way (way) more money than members of other churches. They were the most monolithic in getting their members to donate. The catholic church is too diffuse.

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

Plus, if for instance 20 million came from rome, people would be protesting at catholic churches too. It's the feeling of so much money coming from a specific group of people outside our own state. Forcing us to live some other way, their way.

The comments I've read from LDS members saying that prop 8 didn't single out gays are infuriating as well.

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

I am now seeing that there are protests going on here in SF at Catholic churches.

Which I think is fucking awesome!

These won't garner as much attention though as the protests at mormon churches.

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Oh, you realized as well.
In Spain they're still campaigning against gay marriage. Ah they proposed a referendum to say if Spaniards would love to keep gay marriage legal. I want a referendum of considering them legally a cult and get ilegalized. Fair is fair, isn't it?

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

You seem to assume that all the $ raised by the LDS church came from outside Cali. PLENTY of that $20 million came from California Mormons.

Hell, I was born in California to Mormon parents. The LDS church has tens of thousands (if not HUNDREDS of thousands) of members in the state.

I understand your anger, but I'd be willing to bet that, were it possible to calculate such a thing, the majority of the people that actually voted for Prop H8 were Catholics & Evanglicals, NOT Mormons. Doesn't that deserve as much protest as the money?

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

Fair is fair.

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

that 20 million is what paid for the advertising that got yes on 8 passed. Don't get me wrong, other places should be protested too, but the LDS kinda asked for this IMO.

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

Well, my point is that other people asked for it too. Share the love; fair is fair!

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

In theory I agree with you, and I hope to be protesting at a baptist church next sunday, (and if there is another protest at the temple, I'll be there too), but the LDS is a much bigger target, everyone else is much more diffuse. Other people asked for it, yeah, but not nearly in the same way. Not nearly in the same huge way.

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

Well that is what the protests at mormon temples are doing. The protest wasn't at the small mormon place in menlo park, or at the small one in san francisco. It was at the big gigantic one in Oakland. Visibility is key!

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

So, the equivalent would be protesting at the Cathedral in SF (which I understand happened the other day - YAY!)

I'm not saying "don't be angry" or "don't picket the the Mormons."

I'm trying to suggest that we should BROADEN our attacks. Others deserve to witness our anger and disgust.