The L.A. Times hit it right on the money with that headline, didn't they? Not content with denying the humanity of and the rights of lesbians and gays within their midst, nor with spending tens of millions to do the same in every jurisdiction wherein they could insert their voice from Alaska to Argentina, from Hawaii to Germany, the Mormons have decided to over-run the one thing that publicly set LGBT people apart from TBMs in the entire Mormo-fascist Corridor: the Gay Pride Parade.
Are you confused over whether LGBT people should share THAT celebration with Mormons? So are a lot of LGBT people across the nation:
call me cynical - but I dont trust them.....I wouldn't put it past the Mormons to "pretend all is well" so it gioves them -nationally - a softer feel before the election..I hate to feel this way, but I thinks its ALL part of thier plan. No doubt the Higher ups in the Mormon Cult are Licking thier Chops at the very thought as Mitt Romney being president....and this is JUST A PLOY...to make them come off less, weird, more tolerant etc etc
Posted by: Disgusted American | Jun 4, 2012 7:45:50 AM
This is really pathetic. "Mormons Building Bridges" does not suppor gay equality. They "love" us just like Tony Perkins does. They shouldn't have been allowed to march.
Posted by: calvin | Jun 4, 2012 7:57:20 AM
I'm not buying it. How convenient that the year we have a Mormon running for president, the Mormons decide they were wrong about gays and want to repent! Please. This is all a ploy and then once the election is over, they will go right back to where they have always been: virulently anti-gay. NOT BUYING IT.
Posted by: Rob | Jun 4, 2012 8:23:14 AM
Sorry, but this is an astroturf PR campaign orchestrated to give the Mormon cult cover while they continue to promote and fund anti-gay animosity and legislation around the country and around the world.
Not buying it!
I believe that most of the participants are genuine (as are the Tea Party idiots who are part of the 99% but march in the streets to support the 1% against their own best interests) but the 1% "church" hierarchy are pulling the propaganda strings. The Mormon cult spends hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide each year on propaganda to make themselves look less threatening and more loveable. They're no different from the cult of Scientology; or the cult of Christianity or Islam for that matter. Except they're even more crazy because they believe all the Christian crazy and then added a shitload of their own (demonstrably false) crazy to it.
dum-da'dum-dum dum-dum-dumb!
Posted by: TampaZeke | Jun 4, 2012 8:37:44 AM
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/06/mbbvideo.html#ixzz1wqHLj87iHere is one simple truth the SL Tribune (and all the newsmedia who simple cut-'n'-pasted the article) neglected to mention: any tithe-paying Mormon who marched in the SLC Gay Pride Parade is STILL a member of the LDS church, and is counted as such by their lords and masters in the COB. In fact, Reuters is the only newsgroup that accurately drew the distinction between these rogue Mormons and the larger body of the faithful:
"Munson's group is not endorsed by or directly affiliated with Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
http://news.yahoo.com/mormon-group-shows-support-salt-lake-city-gay-010430276.htmlI wonder if the members of Mormons Building Bridges all pay an honest tithe to maintain their membership in an organization that some categorize as an organization that actively supports hate groups (the LDS church is probably the single largest financial supporter of NOM):
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-linersThere are some bizarre quotes floating around the internet.
This one from a featherweight apologist who knoweth not the difference between conditional and unconditional love, nor, apparently, does she know anything about the millions and millions of dollars her cult has spent fighting LGBT civil rights legislation across America (acts which can hardly be categorized as "loving"):
"The only message is one of love. We are focusing on a message of love. We are faithful Mormons. We believe. We attend our wards. But there has been heartbreak and strife and we want to end that. We are not supported by any political group, and we are asking people to have no signage for political causes. In this Pride Parade contingent, we are not taking a stand either way on marriage equality. Our signs are quotes from LDS Church General Authorities, the Bible, and LDS hymns about loving your neighbor."
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/joannabrooks/6018/mormons_prepare_to_march_in_lgbt_pride_parades_nationwide/Mormons Building Bridges group organizer Erika Munson letteth her cog-dis runneth over:
"I've always felt like I was supportive in my own way of the LGBT community but I've had to keep that and my commitment for the church separate."
http://news.yahoo.com/mormon-group-shows-support-salt-lake-city-gay-010430276.htmlTranslation: "I am a devout TB Mormon but I am going all schizophrenic here and starting this group to try to convince all you gay people that I'm not a hater like my church leaders are."
Do you buy that? I don't.
So who will the parade organizers allow to march next year? How about a few representatives from Focus on the Family? Maybe the KKK can send a contingent -- their sign could read: "White Supremacists Loving Black 2ueerz!"? Or how about asking Charles L. Worley to be the 2013 Grand Marshall:
http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/05/23/pastor-goes-on-anti-gay-rant-calls-to-fence-in-gays-till-they-die-off/I recognize that, living in the middle of Mormon Utah, teh gheyz have to play by the rules of the Reich, but did 1930s Jews appoint Nazis as Rabbis? I think not. This is a question of having one's values lined up properly.
Maybe it's just me, but if I were among the parade's organizers, I would have refused Mormons Building Bridges permission to participate on the premise that "love" or not, they remain self-identified members of an organization that has become known internationally not only as one that has battled against every civil-rights effort by the LGBT community for more than 25 years, but as one that has willingly, actively, physically tortured their own LGBT members, cast them out, and shunned and mistreated them and their loved ones.
Ever since the first organized marches and demonstrations of 27 & 28 June 1970 to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the Gay Pride Parade is an "Annual Reminder ... [of] ...the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged -- that of our fundamental human rights."
Carter, David (2004). Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked The Gay Revolution. St. Martin's Press, p.230
Again, maybe it's just me, but the Gay Pride Parade is not an appropriate venue for dedicated TBM hate-group members to apply balm to their collective guilty consciences at. It is not The "Assuage Guilty Mormon Haters' Feelings" Parade. It is a parade to celebrate lesbian and gay independence of, freedom from, and liberation out of the antiquated constrictions of the culture at large, the rules of which -- ESPECIALLY in Salt Lake City -- are dictated by the leaders of and supporters of anti-gay hate groups.
Those who claim "love" need to put their money where their mouths are and resign their membership in such a despicable organization, or protest their so-called "church"'s two-faced hate campaign on their own turf. Mormon "love" pivots conditionally on terms that remain unacceptable. The Gay Pride Parade is not their turf.