8: The Mormon Proposition
It’s not yet been two years since the passage of Proposition 8 in California, the constitutional amendment that stripped marriage rights from homosexual couples. From memory, it went down a little bit like this:
Well, sans the happy ending of course. Curse you, character portrayed by John C Reilly!
(As an aside, does anybody else find it ironically prescient that Prop 8: The Musical was made before the economy tanked?)
Memories fade from popular conscience quickly, however, and all too soon it happens that while people remember the Prop 8 was passed, they forget just how horrible it was — in the words of Rea Carey of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:
…the court has, for the first time in California history, permitted a simple majority to use the initiative process to strip a fundamental right from a minority group.
That’s why 8: The Mormon Proposition is the movie that we need at this time. 8: The Mormon Proposition is a documentary and reaction to the organised Mormon campaign that was behind much of the financing and propaganda promoting Proposition 8. Go and check out the trailer over at Apple Trailers, and make sure to support this film whenever it comes out near you. More than going to see it, however, drag other people along to see it. Bring people who, otherwise, would be too apathetic to do anything off their own steam.
After all, it’s not enough just to be correct in politics — you also need to have the numbers and the drive. Academic agreement is lovely, but for the movement to gain ground people need to be emotionally charged as well.
Filed under: Human Rights, Religion
The bumper sticker said it well: “Focus on Your Own Damn Family.”
8: The Mormon Proposition, reflects the efforts of those that created it and us that are in it, to hold OUR (now former) church accountable for the pain they knowingly inflicted on OUR families.
- The documentary IS NOT about disagreeing with the church’s moral standards or their right to spend their money on issues they feel are important.
- It IS about hypocrisy; how a church (that says it is all about “being honest in our dealings with our fellow men”), knowingly created and funded dishonest ads to promote their own moral agenda; and (by their own admissions) hid their involvement. The Church stated in their own documents, that if the voters knew the extent of the church’s involvement, it would negatively impact the vote.
- This documentary does not claim that the LDS Church did this alone, even though at its strong urging, its members (only 2% of the voters) donated over 70% of the money contributed and over 90% of the volunteer efforts.
We would hope the displeased members of other groups, be they Catholic, Protestant, African American, Latino, Baptist…, would hold their leaders accountable as well.
Anyone feeling to criticize it should see it first. You will find as Variety’s review states: “8″ actually spends more time trying to humanize homosexuals than to demonize those who hate them.
Opens in selected cities June 18th, and on VOD. Available on DVD July 6th.
Thank you for this post. Yes it was horrific what happened to thousands of couples in CA on Nov. 4, 2008….”permitted a simple majority to use the initiative process to strip a fundamental right from a minority group.”
We still experience the pain of that reality.
The bumper sticker said it well: “Focus on Your Own Damn Family.”
8: The Mormon Proposition, reflects the efforts of those that created it and us that are in it, to hold OUR church accountable for the pain they knowingly inflicted on OUR families.
- The documentary IS NOT about disagreeing with their moral standards or their right to spend their money on issues they feel are important.
- It IS about hypocrisy; how our church (that says it is all about “being honest in our dealings with our fellow men”), knowingly created and funded dishonest ads to promote their own moral agenda; and (by their own admissions) hid their involvement. The Church stated in their own documents, that if the voters knew the extent of the Church’s involvement, it would negatively impact the vote.
-This documentary does not claim that the LDS Church did this alone, even though at its strong urging, its members (only 2% of the voters) donated over 70% of the money contributed and over 90% of the volunteer efforts. We would hope the displeased members of other groups, be they Catholic, Protestant, African American, Latino, Baptist…, would hold their leaders accountable as well. And as you said, get charged up. Stand up and be heard.
- Please see it before you criticize it. It opens in selected cities June 18th, and on VOD. Available on DVD July 6th.