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Monday, December 01

Commentary: Congratulations United Church of Christ on Gay Rights

Source: Huffington Post by Donna Schaper Excerpt: Congratulations to my denomination (and Barack Obama's and Jeremiah Wright's), the United Church of Christ, for joining a lawsuit against the theological hypocrisy of Proposition 8 in California. While it is terribly hard for one church to engage...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 12-01-2008
Monday, December 01

Dan Savage: When Are Your Privately Held Religious Beliefs Not So Private Anymore?

Source: The Stranger | Slog by Dan Savage Excerpt: When you donate $1500 to a political campaign to strip other people—people who are not your co-religionists—of their civil rights. Richard Raddon is, or was, the director of the Los Angeles Film Festival. All hell broke loose after it emerged that Raddon...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 12-01-2008
Wednesday, November 26

Prop 8 involvement a P.R. fiasco for LDS Church

Source: Salt Lake Tribune Excerpt: Although they live a continent away from California, LDS Church members Gregory and JaLynn Prince, of Washington, D.C., still have felt the backlash from their church's involvement in the traditional marriage initiative known as Proposition 8. Their daughter, Lauren...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-26-2008
Monday, November 24

LDS political activism on gay marriage could impact Romney future

Source: Salt Lake Tribune Excerpt: The key role played by the LDS Church in passing California's gay marriage ban could have long-lasting consequences - good and bad - for the future of the nation's highest-profile Mormon politician: Mitt Romney. The LDS effort could give Romney a crucial boost...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-24-2008
Tuesday, November 18

Mormon Church feels the heat over Proposition 8

Source: Los Angeles Times Excerpt: […] For years, church leaders have tried to blunt the assertion that Mormonism is somehow out of the political and cultural mainstream. The backlash over gay marriage carries risks and rewards toward that goal. To support Proposition 8, the Mormon Church entered into...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-18-2008
Monday, November 17

Utah gay activists condemn LDS vandalism; Some buck calls for Utah boycott

Source: Qnews Excerpt: A day after hoax letters containing a white powder were sent to two if its temples, the Mormon church on Friday blamed opponents of California's marriage equality ban for recent 'attacks'. Church leaders released two statements Friday, one saying they were disturbed...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-17-2008
Tuesday, November 11

Some LDS members leaving church over same-sex marriage controversy

Source: ABC 4.com Excerpt: The strong backlash against the LDS Church over Proposition 8 is taking a new twist. LDS members - sometimes whole LDS families - say they are now leaving the Church because of its opposition to same-sex marriage. On just one anti-prop 8 website, they reportedly number in the...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-11-2008
Monday, November 10

Catholics, Mormons allied to pass Prop. 8; No campaign missed opportunities for outreach

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Excerpt: Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons. Niederauer had made critical inroads into improving Catholic-Mormon relations while he was Bishop of Salt...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-10-2008
Monday, November 10

Pasadena Church Vows to Ignore Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Source: KTLA News Excerpt: 'Although in this election, Proposition 8 passed, it will not succeed.' That rebuke, preached from the pulpit of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. Clergy vowed to ignore California's ban on same sex marriage, passed last Tuesday. 'We will continue to...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-10-2008
Monday, November 10

Seattle: Prop 8 Protesters Confront Seattle Mormons

Source: Slog | The Stranger Excerpt: The streets in the University District were mostly empty when the first cars began rolling up for a morning service at the Seattle North Stake Center, a chapel of the Mormon Church on 8th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 57th Street. But the sidewalk was lined with...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-10-2008

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