LA Times -- Steve Lopez: A life thrown into turmoil by $100 donation for Prop. 8

RE: LA Times article by Steve Lopez "A life thrown into turmoil by $100 donation for Prop. 8" which you can read onsite.

He does a very decent job of telling the story of a manager of a once popular eatery, "El Coyote", who was outed for donating $100 to the Yes on 8 campaign.

He explains that there are two gay managers of the diner, and how much pain the boycott of the place has produced.

He examines the rights of donating and of boycotting.

One thing I don't get is a feeling from Lopez that what the pro 8 people were doing was trying to deny the fundamental rights that accrue to married couples.

I read somewhere that married people receive 1400 specific rights that are withheld from cohabitating same sex couples.

And yes, via a google search, I have found a page on that "Legal and economic benefits of marriage"

Domestic partnerships can help bring committed couples some though not usually all the state rights of marriage, but without the marriage label most do not hope to gain the 1000 federal rights denied the unmarried even if a same sex couple is willing to fulfill all the steps that would be needed to be deemed fully committed a 'married' duo. And, in fact, now many groups are trying to deny domestic partners the right to adopt children.

Still, though Lopez desire to sway opinion is pretty transparent, I hope it works. Really, a $100 dollar donation really isn't enough to boycott over.

Civil Rights Group: Mormon's Pro Prop 8 Partners Hate Them

Amazingly the ads just keep coming over a month after the election, but I must say that's a good thing.

I was for gay marriage before the election, but I have viscerally realized how important it is to have equal marriage rights after the election from the demonstrators words and comments from friends and family who are gay or lesbian.    

Like the 'musical' says people just want committed gays to shut up (and I guess go hide in their closets).  But they won't.

Well, according to the Deseret News an pro gay marriage group has purchased ad space in the Salt Lake Tribune (despite the name there is no relation to the Tribune Company) for an ad replying to one in the New York Times last Friday.   Like the musical, I'm seeing a special tact and tenderness for the people to whom they are trying to communicate.  

Fair Use Excerpt Deseret News "Group countering Prop. 8 backers' ad":

Truth Wins Out, a New York nonprofit group, has taken out a full-page advertisement in Thursday's Salt Lake Tribune to combat claims of "violence and intimidation" against same-sex marriage opponents.

Last week, the Washington-based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty denounced incidents of vandalism at LDS churches and declared "No Mob Veto" in its ad. The advertisement was signed by a dozen religious leaders and activists.

"These anti-gay activists are crying wolf on the Proposition 8 protests, but they actually are a wolf in sheep's clothing that preaches religious tolerance while practicing the most defamatory form of religious bigotry," said Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out.

"We refuse to permit this orchestrated campaign to rewrite history, nor will we allow some of the most notorious Mormon bashers in America to pose as friends of the Latter-day Saints."

Truth indeed.  Some religious groups that have perennially been against Mormons have been rather over eager to get money and help from the LDS for the political game they are playing.  I hope this ad helps Mormons to understand the gambit being played.

Read rest of report at source.

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Proposition 8. The Musical!!!

This is great.  See how many stars you can identify.

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