Yep. I just had to comment on this one. A mormon apostle complains about religious discrimination.
Thanks to @DamnedAtheists for tweeting the video.
You have to love how he specifically mentions people being fired from their job for supporting Prop 8. Almost made me want to cry.
Of course, gay or transgender people have never had to worry about losing their jobs because that never happens. Just as I am sure that gay community centers have never once been vandalized unlike all of those poor mormon churches.
Then comes the kicker. He actually has the balls to compare all of this to the civil rights movement. A movement the mormon church in no way supported back in the day.
Check out this Time Magazine article from 1959, Religion: Mormons & Civil Rights
These people are just pure evil.
21:02 on October 22nd, 2009
The news program totally abdicated its responsibility to present the elder's comments in the context of the Mormon church's racist past (and some would say present) or to check whether any Mormons have actually been fired from their jobs for supporting Prop 8.
22:08 on October 22nd, 2009
All very good points. Although I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for this to happen. The YouTube video is from KSL in Salt Lake City, UT which is owned by the mormon church. The only reason I know this is because I had the misfortune to grow up in Utah.
The day that KSL presents anything critical of the mormon church will be the same day that Fox news becomes fair and balanced.