Backhanded compliment
If gays and lesbians can't fight the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with protests, then maybe they can use withering irony.
Editors of QSaltLake, an alt-weekly for Utah's LGBT community, chose the paper's "Person of the Year": LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson - the man who with a single letter mobilized a church-wide campaign to support California's Prop. 8, stamping out the civil rights of gays and lesbians to marry legally.
Here's the rationale:
Anyone want to lay down odds on Monson showing up to receive his award? Anyone?
(Hat tip to Holly Mullen, at City Weekly.)
Editors of QSaltLake, an alt-weekly for Utah's LGBT community, chose the paper's "Person of the Year": LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson - the man who with a single letter mobilized a church-wide campaign to support California's Prop. 8, stamping out the civil rights of gays and lesbians to marry legally.Here's the rationale:
"As strange as it may seem, we at QSaltLake believe that Monson and the Mormon Church are somewhat responsible for this resurgence in U.S. gay rights activism now known as 'Stonewall 2.0.' ... Because of one ill-advised letter, we may one day look back on Proposition 8 as not only an unfortunate chapter in U.S. history, but a chapter that also allied gay people and Mormons in the ongoing fight for social justice."
Anyone want to lay down odds on Monson showing up to receive his award? Anyone?
(Hat tip to Holly Mullen, at City Weekly.)
posted by Sean P. Means @ 9:16 AM |
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please give me a break
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