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Prop 8 Ruling’s Dissenting Judge a BYU Graduate

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Prop 8 CaseLiz wrote yesterday about the dissenting judge in the Prop 8 case. It seems he went to Brigham Young University. And 98% of BYU students are Mormons. Just an interesting factoid.

Then there’s the Mormon’s official statement on yesterday’s ruling, via CNN:

Here’s more from the Mormons, who were single-handedly responsible for Prop 8 passing:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which came under fire for its strong support of the referendum, said through a spokesman that it “regrets” the ruling.

Full Story from America Blog

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WA: Does One Mormon Democratic Senator Hold Fate of Marriage Equality Bill in His Hands?

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Senator Paull Shin

Senator Paull Shin

Only state Sen. Paull Shin knows what he’ll say if a bill legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples comes up for a vote this session. And the Edmonds Democrat isn’t telling anyone — at least not Senate colleagues, those lobbying him for and against the legislation and also those pestering reporters.

As a result, Shin, on whom the spotlight rarely shines, is awash in attention these days because what he decides may be decisive, even historic. He’s among a handful of Democrat and Republican senators undecided or unwilling to reveal their position on legislation which begins its journey through the political process Monday.

If any of them publicly endorses the bill, he or she will be the 25th committed vote, which is the minimum needed for passage in the 49-member Senate. On the other hand, if every one of the undecided senators votes “no” on the legislation, it fails by a single vote.

Full Story from The Herald

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DC: Would GOP Win Put Anti Gay Mormon Republican in Position to Overturn Gay Marriage?

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

The Washington City Paper‘s new “The Sexist” blogger, Dave Weigel, has a profile out on Jason Chaffetz, the “proto-Tea Party” freshman Republican Congressman from Utah who is poised to head the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

That’s actually sort of funny, because this guy doesn’t like DC! For example, part of his platform when he ran for office in 2008 was to work to keep the District from getting a vote in Congress. Oh, and he wants to stick DC into Maryland and overturn the legalization of gay marriage.

For people who don’t think a national legislature ought to be mucking around in the nitty-gritty of local government, Chaffetz actually has a fix. It just that his solution doesn’t happen to lie along the D.C. statehood/legal autonomy: In Chaffetz’s idea, most of what we now call Washington, D.C., could become Washington, Maryland.

Full Story from Wonkette

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Mormon Student Questions Church’s Prop 8 Stance, Is Censored

Friday, September 10th, 2010

After serving a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, twenty-one year old Cary Crall returned home to Temecula, California, in July 2008, just in time for the beginnings of the Church’s intense campaign to pass Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California.

Neither the campaign nor the rationale he was hearing from fellow Mormons in support of Proposition 8 sat well with Crall.

In August 2008, he left California for Church-owned Brigham Young University, where he resumed his studies as a neuroscience and mathematics major. But the campaign followed him across state lines. In conversations with non-LDS friends back home in California, Crall relates, “I found myself half-heartedly repeating some of the anti-gay marriage arguments I had read in pamphlets given to me at church meetings. I felt myself losing integrity and self-respect. I wondered why God would ever want me to do things against my own rationality and conscience.”

Full Story from Religion Dispatches

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