You dismiss the so-called "bible thumpers," yet Mormons played a huge role in robbing Californians of a perfectly reasonable right. As extrapolated in yesterdays New York Times, Mormons Tipped the Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage

Jeff Flint, another strategist with Protect Marriage, estimated that Mormons made up 80 percent to 90 percent of the early volunteers who walked door-to-door in election precincts.
Not only did LDS supply the foot soldiers, they footed the lions share of the bill as well.

In the end, Protect Marriage estimates, as much as half of the nearly $40 million raised on behalf of the measure was contributed by Mormons.
Simply put, the No on 8 movement lacked organization and was unable to overcome the superior ground game put into play by Yes on 8 and the LDS.

Suggested talking points were equally precise. If initial contact indicated a prospective voter believed God created marriage, the church volunteers were instructed to emphasize that Proposition 8 would restore the definition of marriage God intended.

But if a voter indicated human beings created marriage, Script B would roll instead, emphasizing that Proposition 8 was about marriage, not about attacking gay people, and about restoring into law an earlier ban struck down by the State Supreme Court in May.

"It is not our goal in this campaign to attack the homosexual lifestyle or to convince gays and lesbians that their behavior is wrong - the less we refer to homosexuality, the better," one of the ward training documents said. "We are pro-marriage, not anti-gay."
Pro-marriage, not anti-gay? Not a chance. Divide and conquer. And now California faces the possibility of stripping some of its citizens of a guaranteed right. Freedom and justice...for some.

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