I was extremely disappointed in my home state of California for passing proposition 8 - until I got the info about the Mormons.  No matter what your beliefs  - you have ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to impose them on others…

The Yes on 8 campaign estimates that up to 40 percent of its donations come from Mormons. Some others estimate that Mormons account for over 70 percent of donations from individuals.

The church largely stays out of politics. But in this case, the Salt Lake City-based church has sent letters, held video conferences and in church meetings asked for volunteers to support the campaign. In response, some church members have poured in their savings and undertaken what may be an unprecedented grassroots mobilization for the effort.

Several Bay Area Mormons said they would support the right of gay and lesbian unions to have all the rights of married couples. But the word marriage was sacred, pivotal to their concept of families, who can be “eternally united” in the afterlife. A key church document - “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” - says that “marriage between man and a woman is essential to His eternal plan.” They also believe that children are entitled to be raised by a father and a mother.  credit

Believe what you want to believe - that is your right as an American.  But as Americans we have NO RIGHT to tell others whom they can love, whom they can cherish and most of all…whom they can marry.  We don’t all subscribe to the same beliefs…and last time I checked there is such a thing as separation of church and state…

I hope this proposition is overturned as unconstitutional.