Jim Henderson wrote:
> Um, maybe that's what they want people to believe, but the Church itself 
> is credited for donating just over $55,000.  That's in the Church's name.

Like I said, I was active for more than 25 years, and that's the first 
time I heard of them taking a stance on a specific piece of legistlation.

> Fact of the matter is that for out-of-state contributions in support of 
> Prop 8, Utah ranked 1st with more than 50% of out-of-state 
> contributions.

That doesn't surprise me.  A large portion of the population of Utah is 
comprised of active LDS members, and the LDS Church (as opposed to, for 
instance, Catholicism) has always inspired more activity than other 
churches (for instance, the practice of going to Church on Easter and 
Christmas, but avoiding it the rest of the year, is rather uncommon 
amongst Mormons, despite being near-epidemic amongst Catholics).

> Remember that this is a church that has repressed women since its 
> inception and minorities until relatively recently.

?  You mean the Church whose members were the first to extend the right 
to vote to women?  (Utah gave suffrage several decades before the rest 
of the nation).

> It's also highly ironic that the Church's historic "marriage" is 
> polygamistic (still practiced by some sects,

Still practiced by excommunicated members.  There are no "sects" of the 
LDS Church practicing polygamy... whenever anyone is discovered 
practicing it, they are excommunicated immediately.

-- 
Chambers

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