Part of me is glad that the Catholic Church is not receiving this kind of attention, and part of me is upset that we haven't merited it. It pertains to the opposition the efforts the Mormon Church marshaled in favor of the marriage amendment to the California constitution. I find the tenor of this article forboding. Of course it's a hatchet job, but it seems to me it's an especially insidious one. Gay right activists are portrayed in favor of Truth, Justice, and the American Way, and the Mormon church is portrayed as defensive and almost embarrassed. This is not two political forces locked in combat, this is the righteous forces of Civil Rights cornering the 2000s equivalent of segregationalists. I fear it will only get worse.
I wonder if the person who said "civil rights have nothing to do with religious principles" would think that the Reverend Martin Luther King would share that opinion, or even the abolitionists and suffragettes.
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