This past Sunday a SF East Bay Athiest group scheduled an anti-intolerance rally at the Mormon Temple in Oakland, California. I find it very ironic that Christians are to be tolerant of the views of everyone and accept all people the way they are BUT the same treatment is not giving back to Christians. Why do gays not need to accept our beliefs? I find their views intolerant and one sided so why must I treat their beliefs with a higher level of respect than they treat mine? Or is that just the beauty of liberalism?
The irony here is you think that gays aren't tolerant. They don't want to attack your beliefs or values, they simply want their fair and equal rights. All they want is to live their lives - same as you do. It wasn't that long ago that Mormons were persecuted for their values because they didn't conform to mainstream religios belief, and now they've taken it upon themselves to persecute others.
ReplyDeleteAnd now it seems we're back there again being persecuted for not moving the way another group wants. i think it would be a good lesson for everyone to learn that the church of jesus christ of latter days saints does not change it's beliefs for anyone but the lord. Should governments make laws against us we will do what we've always done, fight for our beliefs while staying within our legal rights and if that doesn't work we will all be moving somewhere else again, but the world isn't as big of a place as it used to be and it will only continue to get smaller. What would be best is if we all just gave each other a little wiggle room without defining one another as intolerant.
ReplyDeleteI have been following with interest the deplorable reaction of many voters in California towards The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after 52% of the voters in California voted in favor of Proposition 8 (similar to Florida's Amendment 2 which also passed, but with 62% of the vote). It is ironic that as part of the recorded dedicatory prayer for the Los Angeles Temple given in March 1956, LDS President David O. McKay said, "We express gratitude for the right of the people to resort to the ballot, and for freedom to meet in legislative halls to settle problems and disputes without fear of coercion of dictators, secret police, or slave camps. Help people everywhere to sense more clearly that government exists for the protection of the individual—not the individual for the government."
ReplyDeleteIt would be most helpful to our democracy for the media and leaders of both the Democrat and Republican parties to speak up and remind many voters in California of this wonderful and essential democratic principle. Especially, when put in context with 56 million plus Americans who just voted against Mr. Obama last Tuesday and are now being properly asked to give him respect as our President-elect