This is the last post that I am going to do on prop 8 and the decision that the voters made about it. I am disgusted and fed up with the backlash from it and how the LDS church is getting so much blame. The majority have spoken...let it be!
This is an article that was sent to me and expressed a lot of the feelings that our family has been having on this issue.
Catholic Bishop Decries Religious Bigotry Against Mormons
SACRAMENTO 7 November 2008 (This news release was issued by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento) The following statement was released today by Bishop William Weigand, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and former Bishop of Salt Lake City, in response to attacks on (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) for supporting California’s Proposition 8, defending the traditional definition of marriage:
“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.
“As the former bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, I can attest to the fact that followers of the Mormon faith are a good and generous people with a long history of commitment to family and giving to community causes.
“I personally decry the bigotry recently exhibited towards the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — coming from the opponents of Proposition 8, who ironically, have called those of us supporting traditional marriage intolerant.
“I call upon the supporters of same-sex marriage to live by their own words — and to refrain from discrimination against religion and to exercise tolerance for those who differ from them. I call upon them to accept the will of the people of California in the passage of Proposition 8.”
SOURCE: Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
6 comments:
I know, I saw that a bunch of people are protesting in Cali. Its the majority vote people...get the heck over it!!! I didn't vote for Obama, but Obama is what the country wanted, so I accept that and will not go protesting it. geez.
I am wondering...AZ voted on and passed a very similar Prop. (Prop102) Am I missing the backlash from that or is there not any?...just wondering...you know I live in near isolation over here!
And I am glad you posted this. People need to hear it! I wish they'd run this article in every newspaper that has given publicity to the protesters and that every news broadcasting station would read it too and put it on their website. I think it would only be fair.
Wow that was very well written. I just think those people are so childish. I mean come on you lost get over it. Poor losers!
This is a great post... I feel the same as far as the need to realize the people voted and it needs to be over.
That was a really good article. Thanks for sharing it.
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