Dan Savage's Call To Arms

I have to say that I agree with Dan Savage on this one. Whether or not gay people can marry has absolutely no effect on whether Mormons are able to freely practice their religion-- and if an individual makes a public donation to a political campaign, that individual should be prepared to deal with any and all consequences. And the Mormon church certainly crossed the line between church and state when they contributed money and resources to a public campaign to strip a minority group of their civil rights.

One of the commentators on Dan Savage's post quoted the following "privately held religious belief" from Mark E. Peterson-- one of the 12 Mormon apostles, speaking at BYU in 1954:

"I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the negro is after. He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the negro seeks absorbtion with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage. That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feeling to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace.'..."

Hmmmm . . .