Daddy, Papa and Me

So, the Mormon leaders, after calling on their members to spend millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man hours to pass an amendment to STRIP US OF OUR RIGHTS, an inherently cruel and disrespectful act and devoid of love,

NOW asks it’s members to treat others with:

“civility, with respect and with love.”

I’m sorry, too late for that. They’ve been calling for cruelty, disrespect and the opposite of love for months now, this rings hollow.

As I was taught as a Mormon, to repent you must

Feel sorrow for what you did.
Ask for forgiveness.
Rectify the wrongs you did.
Forsake the sin.
Receive forgiveness.

So, if the Mormon church wants forgiveness for the wrong it did to us, here is what they must do.

Acknowledge what they did to pass the hateful prop 8 was wrong and publicly ask forgiveness.
Call for the funding and passage of the repeal of prop 8’s spiteful amendment.
Never fund another anti-gay amendment or similar legislation ever again.

Then receive forgiveness.

I won’t hold my breath.

UtahCog, Isocrat and Chedner have some great responses to this:

To quote:

UtahCog, in Protest:

I wish this all wasn’t happening, though, and that we all could just live and let live. I also understand you just can’t take it without defending yourself. I know first hand the damage done. They have played a huge part in stepping into the affairs of our homes, lives, and churches, legally harming many of our families. In rhetoric, they have insulted our marriages, our families, and even our children, and made it all worse in then asking for our respect for the incivility (for example: Chedner’s blog and isocrat’s blog). I could see how a peaceful protest outside their church may be a reasonable response.

Isocrat, in Down is the new Up:

“Respect”, for example. The LDS church specifically aims to not treat our families with respect. They specifically place us at or, really, below second class family status, if the leaders will even call us “families”. In fact you’ll hear many in the church deride our hope for equal legal rights and responsibilities as merely a hope for their social respect, which they say they cannot give on religious grounds. Now, they have instituted a huge legal slap in the face to our homes, but somehow have decided that, as long as they do it calmly and while merely feeling love, that it is respect; it is civil; it is love.

Chedner, in rolling eyes:

No vilification, eh? Like, “Gays marriage will result in the downfall of society and the fundamental understanding of a family; it is an evil institution inspired by Satan.” (See various Ensigns and statements made by LDS General Authorities.)

No intimidation, eh? Like, “If your child enters into a gay relationship, you should not allow his/her partner into your family.” (See various Ensigns and statements made by LDS General Authorities.)

No harassment, eh? Like, oh, I don’t know, the entire Proposition 8 campaign.

No erroneous information, eh? Like, “Legalizing gay marriage will force religions to accept homosexuality, will force private adoption agencies to adopt to gay couples, has the same rights as domestic partnerships and civil unions.” (See the official LDS Church’s site concerning Proposition 8.)

The term “Smiling Eyes” comes to mind.

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