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Media blind eye?

Mormon Times columnist Joel Campbell chastises the news media for not calling gay activists to task for evoking the tragedy of handcart companies to publicize their delivery of a petition to LDS HQ last week.

The press fell over itself, he says, to feed a recent controversy triggered when LDS Elder Dallin Oaks compared the backlash against supporters of Prop 8 to the intimidation tactics bigots used against Civil Rights activists.

Campbell argues that to Mormons using an iconic handcart for political theater is highly offensive, but the media neglected to follow up that angle of the story.

Unfortunately for the LDS Church that has also endured gay "kiss-ins" on sacred ground, it may get worse. Andrew Sullivan at Atlantic Monthly warns it's "no more Mr. Nice Gays" after the defeat of gay marriage in Maine.

This entry was posted on November 9th, 2009 at 08:29:51 am and is filed under Uncategorized.