How do you feel about gay and lesbians that are angry about the gay marriage ban targeting Mormon churches?

They can be angry. The problem I have is all the vandalism that has been going on at LDS churches and temples that you don't hear about in the national news. The media doesn't care. It's despicable. Here in Utah you hear about some type of vandalism happening every day. Envelopes with powder being sent to temples. Protesters disrupting regular worship services, disrupting people's right to practice their religion. Then some of the blogs I've seen with gay people saying their going to murder all the Christains. If there were people doing this to gay organizations then you'd hear about it like crazy.


The proponets of gay marraige are just as fanatical and practice the same amount of bigotry as those they say are against gay marraige. There's a lot of hipocrisy going around. It's interesting to see that some gay marraige proponents profess they just want equality, but when it comes right down to it, most are not willing to offer that same equality to those they disagree with. They ignore the right of the Mormon members to believe how they want and take part in the political process how they want and use scare tactics and threats because these people believed how they chose to and practiced there right to vote.


Maybe that's just part of being human. We all believe our way is the right way and every one who doesn't believe how we do is just ignorant or stupid and some day they'll come around. We never, of course, try to understand where the other person is coming from or why they believe the way they do. God forbid we actually try and understand each other peacfully and come to a conclusion we can both agree on. And BOTH SIDES are at fault for this, so don't go on reading this thinking, ';Oh yea, that other side is totally like this.'; I'm talking to YOU!


What it comes right down to is that every one who voted in prop. 8 had a right to vote one way or another and shouldn't be ridiculed and denegraded for the way they believe. I can understand peaceful protesting, but all the vandalism and voilence that you don't hear about in the national news is unacceptable. How do you feel about gay and lesbians that are angry about the gay marriage ban targeting Mormon churches?
I don't have a problem with them being angry- that's not a problem. It's when that anger gets expressed inappropriately, illegally, and violently that I get worried.





When non-Mormon women try to take down signs posted illegally on LDS temple fences and get beaten for it... That is a problem.





When people (of unknown affiliation) swerve to hit the children of Prop8 supporters... That's a problem.





When people are protesting illegally (without a permit), that is a problem.














Feeling angry when receiving a perceived injustice is only human, and it would be inappropriate for me to tell others they're wrong for feeling as I would feel if I were in their shoes... but allowing one's anger to harm or endanger others is simply not acceptable.





Their hate-in-the-name-of-love is a pretty darn hypocritical. I think they want us to condone, rather than simply tolerate, their chosen lifestyle.





The people of California have spoken.. twice (2000, 2008), but the homosexual community is still unwilling to accept that they live in a democracy and therefore are bound by the will of the majority.








Some are calling Mormons hypocritical because we were once also the victim of legislation limiting our marriage priveleges (no, it's not a right!). Granted, we didn't like it. The law was written and passed with an unconstitutional end in mind (Government is not to limit religious practice- it's in the Bill of Rights.), but we've complied, even when it meant broken homes, husbands and wives never being able to see each other again. But, since ';we believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates in honoring, obeying, and sustaining the law'; as a church, we complied.How do you feel about gay and lesbians that are angry about the gay marriage ban targeting Mormon churches?
How do I feel? Well, they have a right to feel like they are being treated unfairly, just as I have a right to believe what they are doing and *want* to do, is sinful. Anytime the world takes a basic gospel principle and says it's contrary to what God intended, that's not a good thing. They may have ';Rights'; but that doesn't make it ';right.';





It's sad that they feel the need to single out the LDS church. There were many other organizations who supported Prop 8. I don't mean they should be harrassing everyone who supported it... it's just sad they think they need to.





Oh well. It will blow over for a while, then I am sure it will come up again and next time it might not pass..
middle eastern mythology should never mix with politics. and the only reason homosexuality is an ';issue'; is cause of the religion, they make it an issue. before christianity, homosexuality was acceptable in europe. its not an issue for us, its only love. what on earth makes it right for them to tell people who are they allowed to love?
They have the right to be angry, but they don't have the right to attack any people with so much hatred. How would you feel if someone targeted your place of worship? It's not right. We need peace, not hate.
they have a right to be angry...just think, what would you do if you werent aloud to marry someone you really loved and wanted to spend the rest of your life with?
I'd say they should be angry. In fact, I think heterosexuals should be angry. So, why aren't they? Bigotry, I would have to say.
It's the ';I'm tolerant as long as I always get my way'; philosophy.
they can be mad if they want to.