-The Associated Press has announced that Connecticut has officially legalized gay marriage, in stark contrast to California's recent "Proposition 8" decision. As those who support gay rights protest in California, wedding chimes are ringing across the country.
On October 10th, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that same sex couples have the same marriage rights as straight couples. Connecticut joins fellow New England state Massachusetts as one of the few states in the Union to offer the same marriage rights to both homosexual and heterosexual citizen.
This ruling comes at a time when protests are planned in more than 175 cities nationwide, including Washington D.C., by gay rights activists.
Wednesday, hundreds of protestors demonstrated at a Mormon Temple, challenging the church's support for same-sex marriage bans. I'm fed up and disgusted with religious institutions taking political stances and calling them moral when it's nothing but politics," Dennis Williams, 36, of New York told the Associated Press. "Meanwhile they enjoy tax-free status while trying to deny me rights that should be mine at the state and federal level." Michael Otterson, a high level Mormon spokesman, said that he was "puzzled" that the Church of Latter Day Saints was chosen as a target for these protests, claiming that "this was a very broad-based coalition that defended traditional marriage in a free and democratic election." Critics of the Mormon Church site what they see as hypocrisy in a church which had once openly supported polygamy not supporting gay marriage.
Gay Rights Protestors, Mormons and Connecticut
By john w connelly jr - Posted on November 12th, 2008
Tagged: Connecticut
• Gay Marriage
• gay rights
• Proposition 8
• the Mormon Church
• Personal freedom
I can feel it in my bones that I'm about to open a whole "religious freedom vs personal freedom" can of worms here. I apologize in advance to anyone who took the above post to be anti-gay, anti-Mormon, or anti-fill in term here, and I seriously do not want to start arguments.
You do know that replying first to your own blog will make people hate you and want to ignore you. It works the same like misspelling the title of your blog, which you did too.
I liked the blog, I am just saying that you will get more reads if you spell (at least ) the title right and you will build/maintain rapport if you don't comment on your blogs first.
Good luck!
Love is like a box of chocolates; if you chose wisely you won’t be disappointed and have to spit it out. ~T
I spell checked everything but the title!
"when you hold a pen, you are at war" Attributed to Voltaire
I think that something messed up then because you spelt the same word two ways (Connectecut, Connecticut) the first is wrong…Sorry, are you still having problems?
Love is like a box of chocolates; if you chose wisely you won’t be disappointed and have to spit it out. ~T
Somehow spell check didn't fix it. Which is weird because when I copied and pasted the article ito Microsoft Word for a second time, the word corrected itself.
Anyway, thanks for pointing that out, I dropped the ball.
"when you hold a pen, you are at war" Attributed
The title bar does not have spell check. I've been caught by that before, too. I get overly reliant on spell check!
"Never go with a hippy to a second location."
~Jack Donaghy
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
Personally I think it is crazy and fool headed to think that "hundreds of protestors demonstrated at a Mormon Temple, challenging the church's support for same-sex marriage bans." Talk about the pot calling the kettle back. The protestors had no more right to tell or challegne a church's beliefs then the church has a right to tell them to be straight!
I am good with gay marriage, not ignorance and stupidity of some protestors.
Love is like a box of chocolates; if you chose wisely you won’t be disappointed and have to spit it out. ~T
Someone spray painted "No on 8" all over a Mormon church. That was just assy. It doesn't help advance our cause.
"Never go with a hippy to a second location."
~Jack Donaghy
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
and was going to edit this blog to include those incidents. Seems you beat me to the chase.
"when you hold a pen, you are at war" Attributed to Voltaire
The protests were not about Mormon beliefs. They can believe anything in the world they want, and it`s not my business. What was being protested is the fact that the Mormon church supported its members, mostly in Utah, bankrolling more than 2O million dollars to finance a misleading advertising campaign in California to get the state Constitution changed to take away the civil rights of others.
The Mormon scriptures say that blacks are cursed and inferior to whites and they can believe that all they want to. Because of that, the Mormon Church kept blacks out of their Church`s priesthood until 1978. But if they were to do the same thing as they did last month to make that belief the law so that blacks who don`t share their religion could no longer get married or work in certain jobs, then I would protest that, too.
Same with any other religious group. They can believe what they want and run their own lives and churches accordingly, but when they try to enforce legal inferiority on others under the LAW, especially by using a campaign of false claims to mislead voters, then they have crossed a line and should be called on it.
They really don`t deserve the freedom they have if they want to take it away from others. What they did in California is offensive to all the values that make peaceful developed countries livable for everyone. They should be called on it. This precedent of voting on the civil rights of a minority should never have occured and we should ensure similar campaigns never again gain traction in America.