A courageous Mormon begins testifying earnestly (and exceedingly calmly) against Prop 8 in church … and the LDS bishop turns off the microphone!
If only more of the faithful could be so brave …
The video speaks for itself:
More Mormons (and more LDS Fast and Testimony meetings) like this one, please.
Bravo, sir!
Any chance a Maine Catholic or two might find the gumption to take a similar stand in the coming weeks?
It’s time to stand up and face down these swiftboating political false prophets.
This is going to be a semi-quick one for several reasons, but today I had a funny thing happen. Considering today was my man’s splenectomy, I wasn’t expecting anything really funny. But then, the world being what it is, something had to happen to lighten the mood and it did.
I got a phone call from a Yes on 8 volunteer.
This morning I’m rushing to the hospital (just running late as usual). Today was Robert’s surgery and I wanted to get there an hour before they took him away. As I’m pulling into Mercey General (here in Sac town), my phone rings. Not wanting to risk violating California’s laws on phone use, I pull to the side when I see a (916) number thinking it might be one of his coworkers. Nope, I heard a nice female voice saying
“Hi, my name is blahblah and I’m a volunteer with the Yes on 8, urging people to help protect California’s families, protect our children from being taught about homosexuality in our schools…”
More below the fold.
She went on for a good thirty seconds with the standard spiel we’ve been seeing on television and their website. I didn’t hear anything new as far as wacked out charges of pedophilia or the like, but they sure did seem worried about children in school learning it was okay for gay people to marry.
She closed by asking “Can we count on your support to protect California’s families?”
Seeing my opening, I decided to go ahead and stretch the truth a bit. Robert and I won’t get married until next July, but we do have our DP so I replied:
“You know, I am on the way to the hospital right now where my husband is about to have surgery to remove his spleen. You can count on the fact that I am going to be protecting OUR family by voting NO on Prop 8.
Her reply was actually kind of nice: “I hope everything goes okay.”
That is nice, hoping everything goes okay, ’cause beating Prop 8 is going to be a part of making sure everything DOES go okay. 🙂
(For those wondering, a huge malfunctioning spleen was removed today with no complications and he’s recovering well, sleeping just a few feet away from me. The worst thing has been the pain for him – but pain should be expected when something as big as a skinny watermelon weighing over 10 pounds is taken out of you. Doctor says this should really help with the general recovery.)
Now, let’s just take Prop 8 down…
BTW, I’ve been wondering why the heck I was on the Yes on 8 call list. Unless they are just calling every likely voter, they might be going after Dem Males Age 35+. Interesting theory when I start thinking about it…but they should have at least taken out the males who live with other males, or maybe gotten the state DP list and taken those folks out (I know I’m on the list).
It’s just nice knowing they aren’t spending a lot of time targeting and are wasting a whole lot of money calling folks like me.
The Camelot Theatre in Palm Springs bills itself as the desert’s “premiere art theatre.” Catering to the areas’ large gay population, the Camelot can always be counted on to show the best of current gay film. It may therefore surprise some patrons to learn that their theatre dollars routinely go to support some of the most anti-gay causes and candidates around the nation.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Ms. Rozene Supple, the owner of the Camelot, has given almost $27,000 to the Republican Party and to conservative, right-wing homophobes over the years. A small sampling:
Last year, Ms. Supple gave $1,000 to the Citizens United Political Victory Fund. Its mission? To support conservative candidates running for federal office who share its vision, in part, of “promoting traditional family values.”
In 2005 and 2006, Ms. Supple donated $1,350.00 to Van Hilleary, a candidate for the Senate from Tennessee. Mr. Hilleary opposes a woman’s right to choose; opposes same-sex marriage (believing that “traditional marriage must be preserved”) and, in 1999 when he served in the House, voted to ban adoptions by gay couples in Washington, DC.
Also in 2005 and 2006, Ms. Supple gave $6,800.00 to John D. Spencer who ran for the Senate in New York in 2006. Mr. Spencer believes that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and supports the Marriage Protection Amendment which states that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
In 2005 and 2006, Ms. Supple gave George “Ma-ca-ca” Allen contributions totalling $500 in his race for the Senate. According to the AP (10/26/2006), this was the race in which Mr. Allen played the “anti-gay marriage” card, attacking gay people in hopes of attracting the right-wing base.
The Camelot is currently showing the film, “For the Bible Tells Me So,” a documentary that “brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture,” revealing that “Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost solely on a significant (and often malicious) misinterpretation of the Bible.”
One might hope that Ms. Supple sees her own film. If she did, she might regret her 2002 donation of $250 to the Christian Voter Project of the Traditional Values Coalition, a group whose website is so virulently and weirdly anti-gay that it’ll give you the creeps just to read it.
Ms. Supple’s most recent contribution? Three hundred dollars in June to Mitt Romney, the formerly pro-gay Governor of Massachusetts who’s currently flip-flopping to the bottom in a race to be more anti-gay than the next Republican candidate. . . .
The list of Ms. Supple’s donations to right-wing, homophobic candidates and causes goes on and on but I think you get the picture: The proceeds of a pretty gay theatre supporting pretty anti-gay candidates. . .
Hmmmh. I’ll just wait for the DVD.