Latter Day Saints Elder Dallin H. Oakes spoke of how Mormons and other religious folk were treated by gays in following Prop 8. He compared it to the struggle southern blacks faced in the 1950s and 60s.
These incidents [of aggressive intimidation] were expressions of outrage against those who disagreed with the gay-rights position and had prevailed in a public contest. As such, these incidents of “violence and intimidation” are not so much anti-religious as anti-democratic. In their effect they are like the well-known and widely condemned voter-intimidation of blacks in the South that produced corrective federal civil-rights legislation. [emphasis added]
Because the church has always had a powerful bond with the black civil rights movement?
Persecution is such a downer. On a lighter note, here’s video of a New Yorker getting gay bashed.
The victim, Jack Price, 49, is currently in a medically-induced coma.
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Ian Baynham, a 62 year old gay guy assaulted in London last month, wasn’t so lucky; he’s been in a coma ever since the attack, and died on Tuesday after his life support machines were turned off.
The assault happened in Trafalgar Square, in the political heart of the UK. It’s like killing someone on the National Mall.
there is more to this story that the mormons are leaving out. i was at the mormon temple in LA and directly witnessed what the mormons called violence and intimidation by gays. to flesh out that description, they were intimidated by the presence of thousands and thousands of people on the public street in front of their church. i admit, if i woke up one day and there were thousands of people in front of me that were super angry at me, i would be intimidated. but while their mere presence may be intimidating, they left out that this is lawful activity under the first amendment. I only saw two people come close to crossing the line onto mormon property: once when Mama Joy climbed up on the fence to tell everyone that she loved them and that we would win our rights, and then again when a girl clung to the fence in agony after she was punched in the face by a huge Samoan guy I believe was sent out by the Mormon church (I saw them call him in from behind their fence). Neither one of these people climbed OVER the fence onto Mormon property.
Which leads into the part i really really don’t get at all: how they can argue that all these people were violent. I saw five people get beat up that day. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was a no one 8 person, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was jumped by the same group that claimed they were members of the church, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM took the punches and kicks that this group delivered without throwing a single punch of their own. The two scuffles i saw start right in front of me both started when a protester was attacked from behind by this group from the church. I don’t know if charges were filed, but no police present would take any statement because, as i later found out ALL THE COPS EXCEPT TWO WERE EMPLOYED BY THE MORMON CHURCH. Which explains why when I pleaded with these officers to stop the beatings, they would not even acknowledge that I was there. The mormon church should be held accountable for this, because it is obvious that the violence was sanctioned by the church. At the least, they should quit with whining about being persecuted. No one believes them anymore anyway.
They claim they were also persecuted by statements such as “the Mormon leadership can suck my dick” that some of these people were yelling, and referenced above. I got called a faggot twice that day. The Samoan girl that punched me in the back of the head, as i walked away from her, said that she hated me, then corrected herself to say that she actually hated my “lifestyle,” I was ugly, I smelled, and that i contaminated the air around me, etc. I have never met her before, and never told her anything about what kind of lifestlyle I lead. The only thing that could have led her to say that, and to feel justified to attack me from behind, was a sexual orientation she presumed because of my presence on the street. In other words, she hated me because of what she thought I was.
On the other hand, protesters were angry at the church for what they did – preaching from the pulpit that gays are less than human, and encouraging this girl to feel justified when she punched me in the back of the head. I have a right to be angry about that, and i right to express my anger on a public street, and a right to be free from the hate crimes of people like this girl.
Well, when they are done sucking that guy’s dick, they can suck my left one for sanctioning this kind of behavior. They are not victims. THey had millions of dollars to put into their yes on 8 campaign, while many gays are poor because they keep getting fired from their jobs for being gay.