A Cadillac for every Gay couple...

This excerpt from the Church's web site I find to be analogous to something one of the Brethren, Elder Mark E. Petersen, said at BYU before a group of seminary and institute teachers in 1954.

First the current excerpt statement over Prop 8:

"The Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage neither constitutes nor condones any kind of hostility toward gays and lesbians. Even more, the Church does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights, so long as these do not infringe on the integrity of the traditional family or the constitutional rights of churches."

Now Elder Petersen's comment about segregation:

“Now we are generous with the negro. We are willing that the Negro have the highest kind of education. I would be willing to let every Negro drive a cadillac if they could afford it. I would be willing that they have all the advantages they can get out of life in the world. But let them enjoy these things among themselves, I think the Lord segregated the Negro and who is man to change that segregation? It reminds me of the scripture on marriage, 'what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.' Only here we have the reverse of the thing— WHAT GOD HATH SEPARATED, LET NOT MAN BRING TOGETHER AGAIN.”

Maybe in fifty more years or so we will be willing to offer Gay couples more than Cadillacs.