Proposition 8 as viewed by some or most of the Mormons...

"In short, if the arguments used in the war in heaven were persuasive enough to draw billions of God's spirit children away from Him, why should we not expect them to be used on the present battlefield? The same minions cast out from the Father's presence still remember what worked up there.

The stakes are critical. If same-sex marriage advocates can dilute and hollow out the central part of the Creator's plan, the whole structure collapses — the family, the nation, and in time civilization itself. The time has come for those of us who believe that God, not man, created marriage (fortunately still a majority) to take a stand and defend it.

Proposition 8 is a defining moment, a tipping point, a critical battle in our existence, melodramatic as that might sound. This is not a political sideshow. Long after the world only vaguely remembers a President McCain or a President Obama, people will continue to be affected by what happened in the California battle to protect marriage in the fall of 2008."

This came from Meridian Magazine. I have written to the editors objecting to it. The author is a California pollster, BYU graduate and Stanford PhD. His name is Gary Lawrence and the author of a forthcoming book How Americans View Mormonism; Seven Steps to Improve Our Image. He and his wife, Jan, have four children and four grandchildren.

This thinking makes me angry and challenges me as to how I can fit in this culture of fear and homophobia. If my religious faith and experience is defined by people like Brother Lawrence I would drown.

I went to Equality California and made a donation. Their web site is http://www.eqca.org/