Gays Versus The Mormons

For the second straight day a large group of people opposed to the passage of Proposition 8 have taken to the streets in Los Angeles. Their target this time was the Mormon Temple:

WESTWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- The fight over Proposition 8 has poured back into the streets. Hundreds of opponents have taken their message of equality directly to one of the largest backers of the controversial measure.

Demonstrators are taking aim at the massive Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Westwood. Protest organizers allege that the Mormon church supplied more than $15 million to help get Prop 8 passed in California.

Thursday evening the crowd was estimated between 300 and 600 people. Protestors were heading westbound on Century City West, reportedly on the way back to the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Westwood. ...

The church's financial support of Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban, has provoked protestors to demand the church's tax-exempt status be revoked for active involvement in a political issue.

A statement released by the church states the church has been focused on the principle of marriage as a divine union between man and woman. The church denies allegations of religious bigotry.

I'll say it again - they're targeting the wrong people. While the Mormon Church may have encouraged large donations to the Yes on 8 cause, it wasn't the votes of the Mormons that put the measure over the top. It was the votes of blacks and Latinos who turned out in large numbers for Barack Obama and voted something like 70%-30% for the measure.

If you want to protest the people who were the most responsible for passing the measure, take your angry LGBT crowd and bus them down to South Central or East L.A. and call those people bigots and homophobes. I'd pay good money to see that.