Among
the revelations stemming from Willard Mitt Romney’s tax returns – now being
combed with the exigetical intensity usually given to sacred texts – are his
contributions to homophobia. Most directly, his family foundation gave $35,000
to two “pro-family,” anti-gay groups. For Mitt, of course, that’s nothing. But
he also tithes — gives at least 1/10 of his income to his institutional
religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; in the last two
years, that amounted to more than $4 million.
The Mormons, in turn, are big
funders of the homophobes. Mike Signorile says, “The church itself gave over
$180,000 to help pass Prop 8 [the 2008 anti-same-sex-marriage referendum in
California]. The church was fined by the California Fair Political Practices
Commission for not reporting its numerous financial contributions to the cause.”
The Mormons also have a network of small, strange NGOS, circling around a few
post office boxes in Arizona, that carry on similar struggles at the United
Nations.
It
seems to me this opposition has a large component of sour grapes. Deep in the Church festers a feeling of: If
we didn’t get to redefine marriage, why should you?
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In Memoriam Brigham Young
Marriage Equality - Mormon Style
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