To everyone that voted yes on proposition 8. I understand that in this world there will always be things which we do not agree about. Things we wouldn’t agree about because of religion, because of race, because of education because of culture. But since I don not have the same beliefs as you should I do everything I can to supress you, to deny you, to subject you to what I believe? What I do not understand is how gay marriage would affect your lives in a direct way. Should I begin a petition to make legislation to ban marriage between a man and a woman just because I’m gay? It would seem outrageous but than again maybe it is outrageous because it doesn’t fit into your opinion of what is normal.

Why is it that religion instead of being the source of knowledge and the source of understanding that it should be is often the champion of ignorance and foolishness. Do you people who pray in your churches and your synagogues and your wards not understand the things you read? Does’nt Christ say that by what measure you judge you will be judged? So you forbid two men or women from marrying because it would contradict the sanctity of marriage but how many in your churches are divorced? How many are that have had sex before marriage? How many that have affairs in secret and commit themselves to lusts in there hearts. You judge those outside of the church by beliefs which you yourselves do not follow. Tell me,will God not in His own time judge everyone but how much more will he judge a church that judged in his name while commiting the very things against which they were judging? First correct yourselves and hold accountable all the brothers within before you judge those without. Because when in judgement you put the burden of righteousness upon yourselves and when you are found wanting you do not only cause those being judged by you to lose faith in you but also in what you are judging by. And if not judged by man, than by God to whom nothing is secret and in whom all your doings are taken account.

To the churches that gave money to the campaign, in particular the Mormons, a people confused, in the dark. How many millions were squandered on campaigns? How many millions did you give from your temples and from the pockets of the churches which you have built up for yourselves. Millions upon millions payed for commercials for lowly things of this world. Tell me now, how many are there in the world starving to death on the money which you could have used to feed them? To the Catholics how beautiful are the church’s and cathedrals you raise up and how wretched and impoverished are those that come pray within them. You churches swimming in wealth, it is held against you because while you amassed money and adorned yourselves, your churches, you let your brothers starve. You left them in the wilderness to freeze to death and starve and for what?So that you could fund a proposition for the sake of the appearance of righteousness. And this itself only one issue, How much more do you squander that is not within the sight of the people? Does the bible not say “Your heart will be where your treasure is”? If so than where is your heart when you have so much wealth? You eat of the fat of the earth and to your brothers you deny food. Be mindful that this too was the sin of Sodom and Gommorah. To the Mormons you who save up for yourselves here in this world. You that denied African-Americans the priesthood simply because of their color. You are a mockery and sign of foolish things. You claim the name of Christ yet you teach things contrary to what was taught by him. Again how much more will those be judged by Him that claimed His name and disregard it. The church is made up of its members and how those members act are how the church acts. So by saying “ you are contrary to God, and what you do is an abomination” you raise yourself up for judgement.

To the African-Americans that voted yes because it is a violation of the sanctity of marriage. Where is marriage held sacred among you? You judge with your mouth and what does your music say to your ears? How many among you say it is wrong for two men or two women to be married yet at the same time blast that music about hitting that and letting her lick the wrapper. I suppose you are all speaking respectfully about your wives….right? Before you tell me about what makes a marriage sacred you yourselves should learn. And I have heard some say that the people have spoken and how the gay community should accept that. Tell me if your parents, grand parents, and great grand parents followed the same advice would I be riding in the front of the bus with you? Would you be in school with me.. Would you be married to whoever you fell in love with. Its sad to see how mercenary you are! As soon as you enter the door you seek to shut it to those that follow behind you.

Speaking generally and to all, How does me having the right to marry the one I love infringe upon your rights?How does the state recognizing to people as married regardless of sex devalue your own marriages. If you count your marriage valuable only because you can marry and someone else cannot your marriage is worthless. A good marriage is two people mutually attached that are willing to spend their lives together as one. Willing to sorrow, to joy, to love, to lose, to gain together. To support one and the other in times of need and to build each other up. Marriage is far more than a piece of paper can ever be it is time for people to realize that true love is boundless. To the churches of which I have spoken, no one is telling you to accept homosexuality as being right. No one is telling you to teach it from your pulpits but you must learn that in this democracy there are those which do not and will not ever agree with you. This government cannot infringe upon you saying that the way you worship is contrary to the way things should be and likewise the church cannot and should not of its own accord use government to implement its will upon a nation of diversity. Remember always church’s just as Christ said “I am not of this world” you to should ensure that you are on the straight and narrow. God will recognize his own.

MEC