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Monday, July 13, 2009

Tolerance On Parade

One of the major problems that I have with the gay rights movement is their insistence that the rest of the world show "tolerance" for their beliefs and yet they (the gay rights movement) shows a complete and total disregard for tolerating anyone elses beliefs. Todays case in point comes from an altercation that a gay couple had with LDS security while the gay couple was ON LDS PROPERTY!

Wearing bright red lipstick, Isabelle Warnas smiled and planted a big kiss on her husband's cheek, something she said she has done often under the spires of the LDS Church's Salt Lake Temple.

"Nobody has said a thing to us," the 50-year-old Salt Lake City resident said.

This time, though, they had an audience of more than a hundred. They were gathered for a "kiss-in" staged Sunday morning near Main Street Plaza to show support for a gay couple, Derek Jones, 25, and Matthew Aune, 28, who say they were detained by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints security guards after one man had kissed the other on the cheek Thursday. They had argued with the guards and were later cited for trespassing.


That is the key point here - this gay couple was trespassing ON PRIVATE PROPERTY! They were not on "government owned" property, they were on property owned and maintained by the LDS Church.....

"My husband and I cannot understand the discrimination," Warnas said. "This is not right."

You are correct that discrimination is wrong Mrs. Warnas - so when are you going to speak out against the RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION that the gay community shows to the religious community (it's not just the LDS Church that the gay activists have targeted in the past).

If their movement were really a "live and let live" type of movement, my more libertarian side would say go ahead - if you want to put yourself at risk from a multitude of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS it is (very literally) your funeral. As a Christian I will pray that you come to a relationship with Christ, but I understand that I can not force you to do anything that you do not what to do. When are you - the supporters of the gay rights movement - going to afford me and the millions of others who share my beliefs the same courtesy?

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posted by The Lady Logician at 8:23 PM

3 Comments:

  • The so-called "private property" is in fact Salt Lake City's Main Street. Which the LDS church private police force has turned into a no-free-speech zone.

    By Blogger rmwarnick, at 1:50 PM  

  • Who maintains and provides security for that property? The City? The State? The County? OR THE LDS CHURCH?????

    If it were patrolled by city cops you might have a point, but it is not. Just like any office building (and it's surrounds) that are patrolled by private security.

    Let's put it this way - your property is along a street as well. If I were to stand in your yard - along the public street - and I taunted you, the way that these people are taunting the Mormon faithful would you have me arrested or would you shrug it off as "free speech"?

    LL

    By Blogger The Lady Logician, at 4:30 PM  

  • The LDS church has way too much power. They stole Main Street from us, and then they stole the public easement that was originally a condition for handing over control of Main Street.

    Well, I was not a party to that transaction. I don't recognize the so-called "private property" on a public street.

    Who is taunting anyone? Two people were walking home from a concert, holding hands. They were confronted by a dozen private security officers, handcuffed, and thrown to the ground.

    By Blogger rmwarnick, at 10:18 AM  

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