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Friday, June 22, 2012

Homo Mormons Will March for Gay Pride

Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:19 AM

Joel Connelly reports: "The Mormon contingent in Seattle's Pride Parade on Sunday will dress in classic missionary attire of shirts and ties, over which marchers will be wearing 'Approve Referendum 74' t-shirts." Marching alongside them: Catholics for Marriage Equality.

The Mormon Church and Catholic Church have been using gay marriage as a wedge issue for years. If this was really about preserving marriage, they would have been campaigning to criminalize divorce, right? But that's not the issue. Just like Rove and GW Bush, they've been counting on an electorate that's more opposed to gay rights than supportive of them. And each of their victories gave them electoral and moral authority to pursue even broader right-wing agendas (electing conservative politicians, restricting contraception, banning abortion, fusing state and church). They tried—successfully—to use gays as scapegoats for their divisive strategy.

Now they're now seeing their divisive strategy play out.

It's dividing their own churches. Mormons and Catholics marching in defiance of their hierarchy, while others are leaving their churches over this issue. And voters are breaking the wrong way for them, too. Most Americans support gay marriage—and the numbers keep growing every year.

So the pious hatemongers can keep it up. Keep fighting gay rights; we'll watch our support grow bigger and your churches grow smaller.

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Good for them.

Where were the two mormon boys at this year's Fremont Solstice Naked Bicycle Ride? No-shows after two straight years.

Posted by Dr_Awesome on June 22, 2012 at 10:22 AM

Will Josh Weed be marching with them? Or does he believe that a truly transcendent parade experience involves avoiding parades?

Posted by bbilly on June 22, 2012 at 10:38 AM

re: that ol’ time re-LIE-gion

I’m still waiting for someone in this nation of sadistic, slack-jawed, aggresively ignorant, hate-crazed, glassy-eyed, right-wing, mouth-breathing, braying, neo-fascist submorons to explain in a coherent, non-tongue-talking manner, precisely how my long-term relationship poses an imminent nukyular threat to anyone else’s marriage.

Tick freakin’ tock.

Posted by Original Andrew on June 22, 2012 at 10:40 AM

On our local NPR station, a survey a foundation in Baton Rouge conducted showed that 48% of people in Baton Rouge favored marriage equality, while 42% opposed it.

Even here in the heart of the Bible belt, views are changing. Granted, you would get a very different result in some of the rurual parishes, but the tide is turning.

Posted by Sheryl on June 22, 2012 at 10:42 AM

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on June 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM

@2: Excellent question.

Posted by MLM on June 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM

Thank you to those brave Catholics and Mormons who are willing to stand up and be counted. And they are brave because boy, will they hear about it next time they go to church.

Standing up for what's right and fair - always a good choice.

Posted by westello on June 22, 2012 at 1:08 PM

We're welcoming the Mormons into gay parades, but, here in Utah, the 'mos are still forbidden from openly participating in the Mormon parade (24th of July/"Pioneer Day" in Salt Lake City.)

Baby steps, right?

Posted by Daddy Todd on June 22, 2012 at 1:46 PM

leaving their churches?!?

o.m.g.....

weeding out the chaff leaves those churches much better off.

good riddance.

Posted by get the hell out on June 22, 2012 at 2:09 PM

"Most Americans support gay marriage—"

which is why so many states have voted to legalize homosexual "marriage".

right, dom?

what is the tally up to now, lets see, oh yes, ZERO.....

Posted by you are so full of shit on June 22, 2012 at 2:12 PM

@11: Where did you learn to count? I make the tally six states, plus D.C. and two tribal governments.

Posted by venomlash on June 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM

12

when will you learn to read?

list all the state's whose voters have approved homosexual "marriage"?

Posted by tribal governments? really?..... on June 22, 2012 at 6:39 PM

@9 What else can you expect from a place where there is no separation of church and state? The 24th is a religious holiday owned by the Mormon church and supported by the fireworks companies. (And for anyone wondering where Romney gets his Romnesia from, one just needs to look at the Mormon pioneer history.....they conveniently forget massacres and everything.)

I was happy to see the Mo's in the gay pride parade and the church is the one that looks bad by not allowing an equal exchange. I suspect that when this next round of conservative white man elders dies off, there will be some changes.

Posted by StuckInUtah on June 22, 2012 at 7:35 PM

@13: Where did you learn to type? You were talking about the states that have voted to approve same-sex marriage. Six states, the District of Columbia, and two tribal governments have. Q.E.D.

Posted by venomlash on June 23, 2012 at 11:38 AM