Also, the topic of this thread is about Prop 8, the Mormon Church’s support of such, and tactics that Prop 8 opponents used against the Mormon Church. Posts that try to migrate away from such will be removed. There are other threads going that specifically deal with Prop 8 and Mormon dogma - this is not one of those.
It would behoove us all to remember that the Prop 8 haters are trying to use the issue of LDS and its supposed hatred toward gays in an effort to shut down the constitutional efforts by the LDS to preserve marriage.
There are also those LDS who try to use the charges of hatred to try and squelch logical discussion of their theology.
Free speech, is free speech. It is guaranteed by the constitution to everyone regardless of their political OR relgious stance. Let US try to not let charges of hatred permeate our discussions. We conservative should know better.
I understand that the main thrust of this is about Prop 8, and therefore it would be great if most of the comments addressed it. However, the following paragraph is directly from the article:
How does the Church reconcile its opposition to same-sex marriage when it once supported plural marriage? The same type of question was asked when, after supporting polygamy for years, the Church ceased its practice. The Church no longer practices polygamy, and should not be confused with splinter groups who continue the practice.
Are you saying that we can't even address comments about polygamy that the author of this article has already raised?
(Secondly we need to realize that FAIR isn't a news organization and isn't approaching this subject as a news operation. It's an apologetics organization and it's taking a cultural apologetics angle. Just because we may happen to agree with many things social and culturally with FAIR doesn't mean we are to be handcuffed in attempting to address those things they mention in this article, does it?)