When the AIDS epidemic hit, I was PRIVILEGED to volunteer at the AIDS Emergency Fund. It was an epiphany of sorts: thousands of people, straight and gay, were doing so much for strangers (both straight and gay), not because it was “The Christian Thing To Do” but because it was the HUMAN thing to do.

Although other metropolitan areas followed suit (some, lamentably, much later), it was San Francisco that met the disease head on and took the lead in compassion – and held it. To the Christofascists who demeaned themselves by coming up with Proposition 8, I would point to that era and show them that true Christianity was not to be seen anywhere. San Francisco was, to many, the lone Samaritan in our supposedly “Christian Nation.”

Now here is a question I’d like to throw out to everyone out there in the blogosphere: the oh-so-Christian ProtectMarriage.com performed an act of criminal extortion on the donors of Equality California. WHY HAVEN’T THEY BEEN CHARGED WITH EXTORTION? Their letter to the donors was clear: “pay up or else!” To date, neither the ACLU nor Lambda Legal have gotten back to me with anything about this crime. And what strings did ProtectMarriage have to pull to avoid being charged?

Just a nagging thought.

Thanks again, Christie. You and SF offer a glimmer of hope.

You might be onto something. I can’t recall the source at this moment, but I did read somewhere that Mormons were planning to register in CA in order to vote for Prop 8. Whether they actually did or not, I don’t know. If I find the source, I’ll post it here at the site.

The Mormons were aggressive in their support of Prop 8. They donated huge amounts of money. They sent their believers out to CA to fight to Prop 8. And they made commercials.

My question is this: Has anybody checked to see if these UTAH Mormons registered to vote in CA. I mean, Utah is a foregone conclusion for the Presidency and other conservative issues. Could it be possible that these Mormons registered to vote in CA to affect the measure? And how could we tell?