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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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No, you're missing the point. Religion didn't raise money and votes for Proposition 8. People did. They did it through the Mormon church. If the Mormon church didn't exist, they'd have done it through some anti-gay marriage PAC. In fact, that very trailer quotes a person saying that the Church was operating as a PAC. You're talking about "religion" as if it's forming people's opinions on the matter, when that is clearly not the case. As stated above, persecution against homosexuals pre-dates Jesus by thousands of years. In the case of its work on Proposition 8, the Mormon Church might as well have been the NRA. You're acting as if these viewpoints are being created by religion, when in reality, the religious entities you're pointing at are only being used as tools to legitimize and organize previously-held prejudices and beliefs.
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Of course these view points are created by the church. Which bible DOESN'T say that homosexuality is a deadly sin? If religion wasn't around in the first place to brainwash people into it's agenda of right and wrong (that is quite hypocritical and morbid to say the lead) than our societies perspective on personal beliefs and lifestyles would be different.
Of course the mormon church was part of a PAC. But where do you think those anti gay movements and establishments got their seed of bigotry? It started somewhere, and Judaism is the oldest form of anti gay propaganda.