Mormons Losing Members Over Anti-Gay Campaigns

[IndianaGreen]

Mormons Losing Members Over Anti-Gay Campaigns

By: Lisa Derrick Saturday November 29, 2008 1:45 pm

While the Mormon Church hierarchy was responsible for organizing millions of dollars and thousands of hours of manpower to pass California's Proposition 8 and Arizona's Prop 102, the church's tactics haven't sat so well with some of its members--including families, members with Mormon heritage going back 150 years, and gay members---who began speaking out in July on the website signingforsomething.org.

Many have public resigned from the church, citing reasons like these:

*I think the church has no right to assume the inner thinkings of its members and take such an open stand of any political issue.

*The Church's involvement in the effort to rescind a basic Constitutional right from California citizens is shameful and misguided.

*The position the church took on this particular issue went against everything I learned from the church. Not only was the church's position discriminatory, but it was also hateful.

*The leadership fights for bigotry and hate. The God I grew up with was perfect in His Love and Justice. Shame on the men who act so disgracefully in His name.

Since July almost six hundred LDS Church members have expressed their disapproval and/or resigned. In October a copy of the site's petition and emails were delivered to the Mormon Church headquarters, but the site is still accepting signatures and letters, since this is an issue that won't go away.

http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/11/29/mormons-losing-members-over-anti-gay-campaigns/

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. aparently catholics as well

I just talked to somebody who is now going to an Episcopal church... 'the last straw' was prop 8

[defendandprotect]

2. And Vatican & Mormon Church funded campaign against Equal Rights Amendment ...

with tax-exempt dollars --

Do parents of daughters not know that---??

Or not care--??

How does any female join these patriarchal religions and demean their own lives?

Their daughters' lives ---???

[frebrd]

3. K&R n/t

[Skittles]

4. so there ARE decent Mormons

that is good to know