tuscany # 84 ~ I swear, it's in their DNA
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 11:35AM 
Altar in a small church ~ Cortona, Tuscany • click to embiggenIn this morning's newspaper there was an article about the Mormons who seem to deem have their knickers in a bit of a twist over the idea as stated in the article headline - Mormon leader afraid religious freedom under attack. The first paragraph of the article stated:
The anti-Mormon backlash after California voters overturned gay marriage last fall is similar to the intimidation of southern blacks during the civil rights movement, a high-ranking Mormon said Tuesday.
The high-ranking Mormon went on to state:
The tide of public opinion in favor of religion is receding, and this probably portends public pressure for laws that impinge on religious freedom.
Ignoring the obvious irony of the fact that the Mormon religion is all in favor of laws that impinge upon what is viewed by many as civil right and the fact that loopy statements like "The anti-Mormon backlash ... is similar to the intimidation of southern blacks during the civil rights movement" are a big part of the reason that "The tide of public opinion in favor of religion is receding ...", one has to ask the high-ranking Mormon official the question (as uttered by Barney Frank) -
Sir, on what planet do you spend most of your time?
Of course, he may be privy to video footage of marching Mormons being hosed and attacked by police dogs that I am unaware of. And, although unbeknownst to me, I suppose it is possible that Mormons are being forced to sit in the back of the bus, drink from separate fountains, go to segregated schools, and are refused service at Woolworth lynch counters - oops, I meant lunch counters. But, even if true (not), I still don't think that a single one of them is capable of having a dream.
All of that said, why is it that so many from the various Christian sects, especially here in the good 'ole US of America where they are free to believe, worship, and conduct their lives - as opposed to trying to conduct the lives of others - in any religious manner they choose, feel "repressed" and/or "persecuted"?
Oh, wait .... maybe the above picture-in-a-picture gives us a clue ....
Reader Comments (1)
There has been a significant anti-Mormon backlash over the defeat of Proposition 8.
While Mormons were involved with the No campaign, and were definitely a source of funding, they were not even close to being the primary source of opposition. That was in fact the primarily Black evangelicals, a very large portion of the blacks who came out in record numbers to vote for Obama in the election also voted no on Prop 8. This is unsurprising as inner-city culture, like most machismo-based cultures, is quite homophobic. Latinos also voted against Prop 8, but not with the sort of overwhelming majority Blacks did (the numbers I saw last had Blacks voting around 70% No, Latinos going around 55% No, Mormons in fact splitting fairly evenly around 50/50)
However the angry yes supporters have primarily blamed the Mormons rather than being politically incorrect and blaming the real opposition to Prop 8, evangelical and inner-city blacks.