Mormons Against Marriage

This is what some married couples in California are facing this November 4th…

While the physical home invasion is (hopefully) hyperbole, the invasion of privacy and the actions depicted show exactly what Proposition 8 will do to same-sex couples and families.  It also shows the one group who is most focused on doing it – the Mormon church.

I thought that the Courage Campaign showed great restraint not showing the impact of a home invasion in one of the 32% of same-sex households in California raising children under the age of 18.   

What it doesn’t show is the impact that eliminating the right to marry in California will have on same-sex couples who hope to marry in other states.  California is a bellwether for civil right progress throughout the United States and is the 6th largest economy in the world.

If you have family, friends, or colleagues who are in same-sex relationships or just hope to be, whether they want to marry or whether they think marriage isn’t for them, I think we all agree they deserve the right to choose for themselves.

Please call everyone you know in California and ask them to vote NO on Proposition 8 and donate any amount you can to support the No on Proposition 8 campaign.

And for those of you wondering why you should care, perhaps paraphrasing the Reverend Niemoller is appropriate:

First they came for the Gays,
  and I didn’t speak up,
    because I wasn’t Gay.
[…]
Then they came for the Californians,
  and I didn’t speak up,
    because I was a Washingtonian.

Then they came for me,
  and by that time there was no one
    left to speak up for me.

Adapted from Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

Just as Niemoller’s original rationalizations for inaction failed the test of history, so does any justification for doing nothing at this pivotal moment in the history of this country.

Call.  Donate.  Volunteer.