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Originally Posted by marina
This. It gets really hard for me to separate people from their church affiliation when the church seems so heavily about political action that I feel violates people's human rights.
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This is exactly why I can't stand these fuckers. They are a sexist, racist and bigoted organization that uses their political clout to change our laws to align with their belief system. And when you start paying attention to the backgrounds of our politicians, it is amazing how many of them are LDS. The guy who orchestrated the US attorney firings under Bush? A Mormon. The organization that heaped a shitload of money into the passage of Prop 8 in California? The Mormons. With them and the C Street gang, we have some serious religious fundies with far too much political power, and they are making real changes in this country. The Stupak amendment in the current health care bill is courtesy of C Street, for example.
And polygamy still goes on. Yes, the church has officially "disavowed" but it is an open secret and law enforcement can't really do shit about it. Remember all the hoopla when they took those children in Texas? They had to give them all back, even though the majority of the teenaged girls had children, which means that they were being raped (being underage and unable to give consent).