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The Mormon Church to meddle in politics

There are similarities between this political campaign and the campaigns that the Church has in the past against women and against black people

Seba Martinez


August 2008 he commanded the First Presidency members California a policy directive: Make every effort to deny gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. The message was read in sacrament meeting of all the wards and branches of the Church in the State of California on 29 June.
In May 2008 the Supreme Court of California issued a statement legalizing marriage between same-sex, explaining that Failure to do so would discriminate against gay and lesbian people. The Mormon Church immediately began to mobilize against the decision of the court.
However, not all Mormons are in favor of the ban. Mormons several groups have expressed their opposition to deny gay people the right to marry, including MormonsForMarriage.com, LDShomosexuality.com and LDS4GayMarriage.org.
"Marriage between persons of the same sex does not harm or affect traditional marriage," says a page on the website MormonsForMarriage.com. "We believe that monogamy and marriage are two of the most sacred institutions of this life, regardless of whether the parties are a hetero couple or a gay couple. "
Leaders of Affirmation: Gay Mormons and Mormon Lesbian, also spoke in favor of equality. The executive committee recently issued a statement reaffirming that "two adults who love each other should have the right to live together in a relationship characterized by loyalty and love, with the same legal protections and civil society has established for married people. "
In an article written in 2001, the Mormon historian D. Michael Quinn explained that there are similarities between the political campaign by the Mormon Church is against gay people and political campaigns that the Church made in the past against women and against black people.
For example, between 1975 and 1982 the Mormon Church mounted a campaign against a proposal that would have guaranteed women equal rights. Until the 1950's, the Church made extensive efforts against the rights of black people, and in 1947, the First Presidency declared that "marriage between blacks and whites [is] a concept that has caused repugnance to all normal people from the time of the Patriarchs to the present. "