The protests and marches and rallies are making a difference!
Never before has a group of people responded so strongly and so immediately to injustice. The efforts of the Anti-Prop 8 movement are beginning to prove to people how important this civil rights issue is, and that Prop 8 is not only a blow to gay rights, but a blow to everyone’s rights.
Following nationwide protests outside Mormon churches, members of the church or Latter-day Saints (LDS) are resigning from the Church in hundreds.
Linda Stay from St. George is in the process of leaving LDS because the Church preaches against the gay marriage that her own son, Tyler, is in.
Andrew Callahan, an LDS member and prominent Anti-Prop 8 activist, runs a website intended to educate people and now, to assist with the resignation process. He remains part of the Church, though his family does not, because he was asked to resign and refuses to let them “feel they got what they wanted.”
But he says he has heard from hundreds of people leaving the Church following the passage of Prop 8 and the ensuing demonstrations and marches that flooded the streets all over the country. He recounts the story of one “heartbroken” woman from California who “doesn’t want to be associated with the bigotry and she doesn’t want, in any way, to be responsible for teaching the young children to be bigots.”
Callahan admits that many of these people may have left the Church anyway, but that since Prop 8 reared its ugly head and protesters gathered outside the Salt Lake City Temple on Friday, more than 200 members have made their resignation clear.
Discrimination is discrimination.
[Image via AP Images.]
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