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	<title>Comments on: An Open Letter to L. Whitney Clayton</title>
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		<title>By: Mahndisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mahndisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>11 07 8

Yeah, I admit those people are fulla crap. What also bothers me is the throngs of so called conservatives who actively endorsed this initiative. It is anathema to the principles of liberty to leave the application of civil rights to a popular vote.  The tyranny of the majority rears its ugly head now. I don&#039;t understand how people twist the history of this country around to suit their religious zealousness. The Founding Fathers believed in a society of religious tolerance. We live in a pluralistic society so everyone cannot be a fundamentalist evangelical Christian or cultist...I find this initiative to be intrusive and wrong. Consenting adults should be able to get married if they so choose. Gay marriage can expand the tax base for goodness sakes!

And while my religion my prohibit gays from marrying in the church, the church is NOT the state. 

One last thing is to reply to a comment of yours in a previous post where you castigated Black people for overwhelmingly NOT agreeing with Prop 8. What Black people cannot be bigoted too? Most Blacks are offended when their plight is compared to that of gays. After all, a gay white person can hide their sexuality but a Black looks Black and is treated as such. 

Therefore, the gay lobby should change their lobbying paradigm and stop trying to couple themselves to oppressed ethnic groups.  A far more powerful approach is to appeal to the human rights issues involved here,imho.</description>
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<p>Yeah, I admit those people are fulla crap. What also bothers me is the throngs of so called conservatives who actively endorsed this initiative. It is anathema to the principles of liberty to leave the application of civil rights to a popular vote.  The tyranny of the majority rears its ugly head now. I don't understand how people twist the history of this country around to suit their religious zealousness. The Founding Fathers believed in a society of religious tolerance. We live in a pluralistic society so everyone cannot be a fundamentalist evangelical Christian or cultist&#8230;I find this initiative to be intrusive and wrong. Consenting adults should be able to get married if they so choose. Gay marriage can expand the tax base for goodness sakes!</p>
<p>And while my religion my prohibit gays from marrying in the church, the church is NOT the state. </p>
<p>One last thing is to reply to a comment of yours in a previous post where you castigated Black people for overwhelmingly NOT agreeing with Prop 8. What Black people cannot be bigoted too? Most Blacks are offended when their plight is compared to that of gays. After all, a gay white person can hide their sexuality but a Black looks Black and is treated as such. </p>
<p>Therefore, the gay lobby should change their lobbying paradigm and stop trying to couple themselves to oppressed ethnic groups.  A far more powerful approach is to appeal to the human rights issues involved here,imho.</p>
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		<title>By: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, Support California Proposition 8 Banning Gay Marriage, And Get What They Deserve In Response -- Protests, Contempt, and the Judgment of History &#124; Popehat</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, Support California Proposition 8 Banning Gay Marriage, And Get What They Deserve In Response -- Protests, Contempt, and the Judgment of History &#124; Popehat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Kip at a Stitch in Haste has a understandably angry piece about LDS involvement in Prop 8 that is well worth reading. I wouldn&#8217;t use and don&#8217;t condone some of Kip&#8217;s language about religion, but share his view that the LDS leadership now calling for healing is outrageous and contemptible. The LDS church has cast the die; it has chosen to use its power with its supporters to generate vast financial support for a measure calculated to prevent people who love each other from getting married. The dark dreams of McCain/Feingold aside, its supporters have that right. But now the church and its supporters are marked. History, and the people of California, will remember and judge them accordingly. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Kip at a Stitch in Haste has a understandably angry piece about LDS involvement in Prop 8 that is well worth reading. I wouldn't use and don't condone some of Kip's language about religion, but share his view that the LDS leadership now calling for healing is outrageous and contemptible. The LDS church has cast the die; it has chosen to use its power with its supporters to generate vast financial support for a measure calculated to prevent people who love each other from getting married. The dark dreams of McCain/Feingold aside, its supporters have that right. But now the church and its supporters are marked. History, and the people of California, will remember and judge them accordingly. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Ken</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If the LDS church wants to be bigotry&#039;s deep pocket, it can&#039;t expect to be respected.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the LDS church wants to be bigotry's deep pocket, it can't expect to be respected.</p>
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		<title>By: Chuck</title>
		<link>http://www.kipesquire.net/2008/11/an-open-letter-to-l-whitney-clayton/comment-page-1/#comment-7820</link>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hear, hear. *clap clap clap* .</description>
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		<title>By: Chris Berez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Berez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can&#039;t see me right now, but this me applauding. Well said.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can't see me right now, but this me applauding. Well said.</p>
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