Protest Prop 8 nationwide this Sat. Nov. 15

It is amazing and heartening the speed at which these protests are being organized.

There will now be protests in every state, with some states having multiple events. Join the Impact has the all details.

LDS and Catholic Church joined forces 11 years ago to oppose same sex marriage

As shown by an LDS internal memo.

SFist: A call for constructive Prop. 8 overturning tactics

SFist is putting out a call for and sites and/or organizations doing any of the following constructive things to help overturn gender and queer discrimination in the state of California.

* Reaching out to latino, black, and religious communities * Providing legal support — to block prop 8, or to protect gay couples, or [...]

On Mormon-owned business boycotts

AmericaBlog on Bill Marriot’s blog post about the hotel chain being LGBT friendly.

It doesn’t matter if Bill Marriott didn’t give to Prop 8. He is a major donor to the Mormon Church. And they use that money to impose their religious views on others, whether you like it or not.

Second, Bill Marriott may [...]

Protest Prop 8 nationwide Nov. 15

Join the Impact has the ever-growing list of locations for protests against Prop 8 this saturday..

Mormon hotel chain site vanishes off Net

AmericaBlog says Marriot Hotels are heavily Mormon-controlled and execs gave to Yes on 8, noting in particular the Huntington Hotel Group, who owns a number of Marriotts.

In a bizarre coincidence, the Huntington Hotel Group site is now down, and returns “This site has been taken down for maintenance.” Imagine that. The site worked just [...]

Courage. Gay Mormon for equality

Affirmation.org is a group of gay and lesbian Mormons. Let’s remember, this isn’t against Mormons or the right of people to have religious beliefs. It’s against the deliberate and continuing interference by the Mormon hierarchy in secular affairs. There have been protests by Mormons in Salt Lake City and it’s clear LDS members are [...]

Same-sex marriage rallies continue

The S.F. Chronicle has a useful listing on contributors to both sides of Prop 8 as of Nov 3. Here’s the list arranged by amount of contribution, highest first, for those who gave to Yes on 8. I’m thinking the big contributors to Yes on 8 need to have their businesses boycotted as well [...]

More from the Marriage Equality march

More on our previous post and Flickr

No on Prop 8 march

I just got back from a quite large No on Prop 8 march in San Francisco. The march was spontaneously organized in just three days after the loathsome Prop 8 passed.

Among other things, I expect there will be organized boycotts of businesses owned by LDS and of businesses owned by Mormons that gave substantial [...]