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What to do about the Mormons
Nov. 9th, 2008 09:50 pmDan Savage is out to get the state of Utah. My sympathies are with him, but I'm not sure what I would do to fix marriage inequality in this regard. He has a point--the Mormon church bankrolled yes-on-Prop 8 in California. However, they're not in the majority in the state. The problem is the people who voted for it, not necessarily the people who donated money to convince people to do so. Most of those people, to my mind, were already planning on voting one way or another.
The sympathetic part of me totally approves boycotting Mormon industries. Except that won't really stop their monstrous finance engines at all. They're just too rich already. What would work better is to convince the people on the street who are Mormon but who don't support Prop 8-style legislation, to be more active in determining how the money they tithe to the church is used. That's the only way you're going to keep the insidious hands of religiously-backed financial influence out of civil human rights. Because make no mistake, they'll just keep switching targets to new states (like CT, like, perhaps, IhopeIhopeIhope, NY) to get initiatives there to get rid of gay marriage rights.
The sympathetic part of me totally approves boycotting Mormon industries. Except that won't really stop their monstrous finance engines at all. They're just too rich already. What would work better is to convince the people on the street who are Mormon but who don't support Prop 8-style legislation, to be more active in determining how the money they tithe to the church is used. That's the only way you're going to keep the insidious hands of religiously-backed financial influence out of civil human rights. Because make no mistake, they'll just keep switching targets to new states (like CT, like, perhaps, IhopeIhopeIhope, NY) to get initiatives there to get rid of gay marriage rights.
