November 7, 2008
IT'S NOT THE L.D.S. THEY SHOULD BE HATING ON...:
'No More Mr Nice Gay' as Mormons face vote backlash: Protesters vent fury after church funds successful effort to ban gay marriages (Guy Adams, 8 November 2008, Independent)
Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: "No More Mr Nice Gay." Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as a "prophet, polygamist, paedophile." Hundreds of others simply chanted: "Mormon scum."
70% of African Americans backed Prop. 8, exit poll finds (Shelby Grad, 11/05/08, Los Angeles Times)
Details here from AP:California's black and Latino voters, who turned out in droves for Barack Obama, also provided key support in favor of the state's same-sex marriage ban. Seven in 10 black voters backed a successful ballot measure to overturn the California Supreme Court's May decision allowing same-sex marriage, according to exit polls for The Associated Press.
but the A.M.E. Posted by Orrin Judd at November 7, 2008 10:06 PM

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