In a wonderfully offensive piece, The National Review refers to the concept of same-gender marriage as ‘immorality.’ Who’s immorality? Both the United Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalists have for years been marrying same-gender couples. Is the morality of Catholicism or Mormonisms somehow more valid, even if they are a majority? Then on to a wonderful use of an isolated incident to conjure up fear:
Last week in a Denver suburb, someone lit a Book of Mormon on fire and dropped it on the doorstep of a Mormon temple…. In a move that may make gay-rights supporters’ heads spin, the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
My head does not spin. If the motives of that crime were hate-based, it should be prosecuted as such. Do they think gay rights supporters condone hate crimes and violence? Anyways, ‘Editors,’ tell me, are there more hate crimes every year against gay people or Mormons? I don’t think the numbers would surprise anyone.
