A thin line between love and hate.

"Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred" Vaclav Havel 1989

Beautiful words. Beautiful sentiment- amazing artist. I was inspired by this quote and found it to be moving and powerful. It's a shame that it appeared at the top of this page

I find it incredible that the very church that was behind 44% of the funding of Proposition 8, produced the incredibly bigoted commercials demonizing the gay community, and then loudly and proudly displayed their clear prejudices could have the audacity to then form a website called Above the Hate.

What the Mormon church fails to recognize is that what is happening to them right now isn't hate. It is disappointment. How quickly they seem to have forgotten the persecution they themselves faced less than 200 years ago (in 1878), when the rest of the country condemned their own marriage practices. Maybe it slipped their minds that their own church disrespected the "sanctity of marriage" they seem to hold so dear- Let's take a look at that bible quote they love so much:

1Corinthians 7:2 "because of prevalence of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband"

*Note- That's one wife and one husband, my friends.

Another quote we keep hearing is: ‘Marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman unto one flesh.'

Funny story: That isn't from the bible. It's from 'Luther's Small Catechism"

But my purpose isn't to point the finger at the Mormons. I don't want to persecute or make them feel hated..... like another group of Americans we may know about. If it seems like gay rights activists are singling out the LDS church it's only because they started it . That's the list of all the Mormon donors above $1000. The proof exists!

Here it is in plain, non-blame game English: All of the propositions banning gay marriage were bigotry, pure and simple. Any claims anyone made to "keep marriage sacred" were hiding behind a mask thinly veiling homophobia. To keep two people from legally declaring their love for one another isn't sacred; it isn't righteous; it isn't morally just. It's HATE. So I ask again: How can the main supporter of such a proposition claim to be above the hate?

They can't. They won. So anything following their "victory" is well deserved protest. Booker T Washington once said "Every race or nation that has ever gotten up on it's feet has done so through struggle and persecution." Lets hope so. For love's sake.