LAtimes.com
November 6, 2008 3:48 pm
About 3,000 protesters gathered today outside the temple of the Mormon Church on Santa Monica Boulevard in Westwood to protest Tuesday's passage of Proposition 8, the initiative that bans same-sex marriage.
The protesters marching Thursday outside the Westwood temple accuse the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of spending millions to air deceptive advertisements in support of Proposition 8.
The measure passed on Tuesday with 52 percent of voters casting their ballot to define marriage as a heterosexual union.Mormon church spokesman Keith Atkinson says members were encouraged to support the ban on gay marriage, but the church made no institutional donations.
Update 5:00 pm: According to KCAL9 news, this protest is still going on in LA. About 300 protesters are carrying signs and marching east bound on Wilshire blvd. stopping traffic and giving LAPD headaches.
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But these people who voted Yes for Prop 8 are not our enemies. They are our fellow citizens. So I'll use the word, "Opposition." How we approach them and how we treat them will definitely affect the outcome of our movement. Yet, do we even know who they are? Many across the state have chosen to focus on the Mormons, but how many Mormons actually make up the population of California? According to Wikipedia, 2.12%. (Mormon Population.) California's Population: 36,553,215 (2007) Mormon Population: 77,380 Out of 77,380 Mormons living in California, how many of them were eligible to vote (that number includes kids, the unregistered, etc)? And of these, how many actually voted Yes? I can guarantee you, not all. The number gets smaller and smaller. Here is a link of the Prop 8 exit polls from CNN. Look at them closely: CNN Exit Polls These people, the Yes votes, are the true opposition. So out of the roughly 5.5 million who voted Yes, that's an awfully small amount of Mormons.
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