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Posts under ‘Prop 8’
Messenger, 28 September 2010
We all want tomorrow to be better than today. We all put in a lot of effort to make that happen. We all like to think that we do really well with every effort and intent, and we all know what they say about the best of intentions. I want to stay hopeful. Preceding the [...]
Elder Marlin K. Jensen Listens to Pain Caused by Prop 8
There was never a statement suggesting that Elder Jensen felt the Church’s support of Proposition 8 was an error or that he was apologizing for that event.
Messenger 21-Sep-10 Follow-up
A response to a reader’s comments of the last edition of the Messenger.
John Dehlin to Interview Cary Crall, Discuss Prop 8
Mormon blogger John Dehlin has just announced a live-streamed Mormon Stories interview with BYU student Cary Crall, whose recent editorial about Mormons and Proposition 8 was yanked from the BYU website only hours after being posted.
BYU Student Tells the Truth about Prop 8, Gets Censored
Cary Crall: “It’s not about adoption rights, or the first amendment or tradition. These arguments were not found worthy of the standards for finding facts set up by our judicial system.”
With marriage equality on hold in CA, what are the next steps?
To ensure that everyone is up to date: (I am not a lawyer, and a fair amount of my summary may be opinion rather than fact. Any faults are my own, and the summary and opinions expressed in this post are not the official opinions of Affirmation.) Early this month, Federal Judge Vaughn Walker struck [...]
Happy Pride Month!
14 June 2010 Sometime this month, in many major cities around the United States and world, there will be a Pride celebration – a festival, music, dancing, parade or rally. Pride is celebrated as recognition of what happened in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City – a protest to bring awareness [...]
Huffington Post on “8: The Mormon Proposition”
From ’8: The Mormon Proposition’ – Exclusive Clip Reveals Church Coerced Members to Raise Millions For Prop. 8 Campaign (VIDEO): The film will interest those who’ve wondered why the fight against gay marriage in California began to flourish or why California became the first state to take same-sex marriage rights away by changing its constitution. [...]